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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think those demands will go away any time soon. Even with 100x the aupairs arriving. We didn't agree to them in the first place because it just didn't make financial sense. A local option was available which did. It's a risky road to offer much less and then open yourself up to an immediate rematch once they are here and find the grass is greener somewhere else.

I think the competition will be less and it will stop the escalation of the demands. I doubt the dedicated car/own bathroom/gym membership/cellphone stuff is going away anytime soon. We never pay over stipend so I assume that one will stop escalating too.

Offer what you want. I can't imagine stretching my family's budget thin for an aupair. [/quote]

It's social media that drives their demands, so as long as there is one au pair driving a Mercedes in Beverly Hills and living in her own guesthouse, they will all think they deserve that. They all want to be like the au pair who is living the glamorous life on Insta (half of which is BS. My former au pair used to go to fancy stores like Saks and try on outfits so she could take pictures of herself wearing Chanel and fur coats that she could never in a million years afford, just for the Insta likes. If I had found her social media before matching, I never would have matched with her. What a terrible role model for my daughters! And she sulked because I didn't buy her an iPhone. I didn't buy myself one, either!).[/quote]

Yup.  Ours was very envious of her AP friend whose host family had a private jet, so they could travel over the holidays while we were working our butts off in the ICU during the winter surge.  The friends are the worst[/quote]

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