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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by chrisweekly on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:08PM (#13179680)
Childcare exceeds all other household expenses (incl housing) in a huge % of families. Wish I had stats to cite, none avlbl atm.
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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by mrkurt on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:11PM (#13179700)
Oh yes. That wasn't a factor for us (stay at home parenting!) but school expense would have been if we'd tried to get our kids good schooling.
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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by eatbitseveryday on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:26AM (#13193047)
Staying at home to parent means a missing income. I would include that as a cost.
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