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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you need to either set something reasonable (100+ miles per week, if you know her friend lives 20 miles away), set up an Uber account and cover $50-100 per week, or you need to provide a metro card IF her friend is metro-accessible.  You provided a car as a perk.  Severely limiting it now would be immediately met with resentment, justifiable in my mind!

This is one of the things you have to consider BEFORE getting a new AP.  You said a previous AP racked up 300+ miles in a weekend, and I agree that’s too much.  But 50 miles is not much.  If you were limited to 50 miles per week, would you be able to do it without feeling like you’re missing out on other things?[/quote]

Let’s see...I didn’t actually have a car for years, and had to figure out ways to get places that didn’t involve me just grabbing the car keys. I also don’t visit my friends who live 20+ miles away on a daily basis. And now, as an adult, I pay for all of the expenses associated with driving, and would not put 50 miles/day on the car for anything other than a necessary work commute. Try the math on that at the fed reimbursement rate: $29 per trip. Let’s multiply by four: $116. Or five: $145. And now let’s take those weekly numbers and multiply by 4.3 (avg weeks per month): that gets us to $499 - $624 per month for au pair’s personal, off duty driving.

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