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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am one of those "actual host families" whose responses you are looking for, and I already replied that while we did this one year while my husband rode his bike to work every single day and yes it was an inconvenience but yes it was a priority so that the au pair could have a car every single day,  I strongly urge you to get a third car  if you don't want the inconvenience of having to share a car with your husband or pay for uber. It will make you much happier and hermuch happier. We are on our 11th year in the program, and the way we have been so happy with it so long is that we do inconvenience ourselves to make sure that she is happy, just as I am sure she is inconveniencing herself plenty to make sure we are happy. [/quote]

If it were possible for my husband or I to ride a bike to work, we would. No matter how much you all are dead set on making us appear to be thinking only our own convenience, the fact still stands that I am looking for an arrangement that is mutually considerate.
We could choose to avoid this by only meeting the program requirements of getting her to meetings and classes, but we want to go beyond that and are not only offering a car all weekends and evenings when she will be off, but looking for ways to add additional car time during the week.  We are willing to inconvenience ourselves by finding other ways to handle getting to work during the week a portion of the time, but not every single day. If a person can't handle being told there are, for example, 20 hours during the week comprised of 168 hours total, where the car is not available,  then they are too selfish and entitled for us.  But we screened well for that.   I am just looking for a reasonable person who has been in this situation to discuss it with, who does not see purchasing a 3rd car as the only possibly option.  While it is great that it was an option for you to purchase a 3rd car, this is not an option for us.  We are one time AP HF. we are not planning to cycle through them as our childcare of choice indefinitely.  If we were planning this as a lifestyle on a continuing basis then it would surely make sense, but as it is, this does not.  [/quote]

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