I feel this! My husband and I both have very good jobs and somehow still feel like we're constantly struggling to keep up. When we have our third child this summer, we'll be paying our nanny $6,000 per month to watch them all (and we live in Wisconsin, not a super HCOL area). The only thing that keeps me sane is that these childcare costs are temporary and we have good public schools that they'll eventually go to.
My wife and I just moved out of DC back to New England (much lower COL area) in anticipation of our first kid... feeling super lucky that we could both do that and keep our jobs because I don’t know how we would have managed if we’d stayed.
I feel this! My husband and I both have very good jobs and somehow still feel like we're constantly struggling to keep up. When we have our third child this summer, we'll be paying our nanny $6,000 per month to watch them all (and we live in Wisconsin, not a super HCOL area). The only thing that keeps me sane is that these childcare costs are temporary and we have good public schools that they'll eventually go to.
My wife and I just moved out of DC back to New England (much lower COL area) in anticipation of our first kid... feeling super lucky that we could both do that and keep our jobs because I don’t know how we would have managed if we’d stayed.