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Yeh, and I got a quick rep for what I wrote, because it's no BS.
$24k? With kids? You can't even live off of welfare on that salary in GA, and the rent is about 60% cheaper there. No way you should raise your kid in some crack infested neighborhood, which is something you have to work up to with 24k a year.
Let me just say this. I have a house in GA. It's a nice house. I have 3 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, and it's about 2000 sq ft. I pay about twice my mortgage in DC for a 800 sq ft apartment near DC than my giant house in GA.
You do qualify for government support, which you should definitely look into. DC is very friendly about mother with a child.
Nannies are generally $600-800 a week, before taxes, paid vacation, meals, and other expenses. You are crazy if you think $2000 is the upper end of the child care spectrum; that isn't even the upper end of the daycare fees.
My girlfriend works as a Nanny in Bethesda. She is here from Slovakia for school and her visa does not allow her to work legally. The family provides her with a room and provides her with most all of her meals. She gets about $350 (untaxed under the table) for a 35 hour work week (or about $1,400/mo). If not for the free room and food it would not be possible for her to make it on this wage but because her living costs are cut so far down she can make things work. Not sure how people making less than her at minimum wage with taxes and full living expenses can ever make ends meet around here?
Yeh, and I got a quick rep for what I wrote, because it's no BS.
$24k? With kids? You can't even live off of welfare on that salary in GA, and the rent is about 60% cheaper there. No way you should raise your kid in some crack infested neighborhood, which is something you have to work up to with 24k a year.
Let me just say this. I have a house in GA. It's a nice house. I have 3 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, and it's about 2000 sq ft. I pay about twice my mortgage in DC for a 800 sq ft apartment near DC than my giant house in GA.
You do qualify for government support, which you should definitely look into. DC is very friendly about mother with a child.
The problem is daycare. That's super expensive. If you want to save money, you need to find a way to solve that problem about you paying 60% of your salary to daycare. That might give you some breathing room.
If anything, move near the many colleges around, so you can get some college kids to do daycare in exchange for food and internet, so they can do their homework, and watch your child.
It's tough having a kid, especially in DC, because I don't think this city is made for family.
Yeh, and I got a quick rep for what I wrote, because it's no BS.
$24k? With kids? You can't even live off of welfare on that salary in GA, and the rent is about 60% cheaper there. No way you should raise your kid in some crack infested neighborhood, which is something you have to work up to with 24k a year.
Let me just say this. I have a house in GA. It's a nice house. I have 3 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, and it's about 2000 sq ft. I pay about twice my mortgage in DC for a 800 sq ft apartment near DC than my giant house in GA.
You do qualify for government support, which you should definitely look into. DC is very friendly about mother with a child.
He's right.. I didn't say we were making that much, I said we (i.e., my wife) were discussing paying someone that to be a nanny and it would be their only source of income. My concern is that it wouldn't be nearly enough for them to live in DC. We make more than $24k.
Thanks again for all the input.. I'm still thinking a local "day care" is the way to go, but we'll see what happens.
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