Great schools, cheap housing, near Burbank? (Glendale, Santa Clarita: condos, daycare, townhomes)

[PeppermintChapstick]

Originally Posted by Amiekbm

Hah! I am DYING to go back to work. My youngest is three and i've been home freelancing for six years. I'm ready to spend my days with grownups! Somebody else can be the class parent and cub master and costume designer for the school play.

I use to work for a division of WB, so I'm hoping to go back there.

If you can believe it, the car insurance is almost half of what we pay in New Jersey.

Many many thanks for all the places to start looking!

[Count David]

Start with Burbank.

I paid $2.49 for gas this morning.

[Drowningintherain2]

Originally Posted by PeppermintChapstick

What is with people in this thread commenting on this woman's decision to go back to work now that she has a preschooler? She did not ask for opinions or eye rolling emoticons about her choice to work outside the home. She had questions pertaining to housing and employment centres. f you really have a problem with working women, might I suggest a time machine? Jeez I guess women shaming is not dead after all.

[1200RT]

Originally Posted by Drowningintherain2

What is with people in this thread commenting on this woman's decision to go back to work now that she has a preschooler? She did not ask for opinions or eye rolling emoticons about her choice to work outside the home. She had questions pertaining to housing and employment centres. f you really have a problem with working women, might I suggest a time machine? Jeez I guess women shaming is not dead after all.

I'll try to speak to that, since i was one of the people that commented.

Her post seemed to have a tone that she didn't want to work, but had to because of the costs of life in CA. Obviously, I misunderstood, as it sounds like she does, in fact, want to go back to work.

I think assuming people don't like women in the workforce is a bit extreme, and actually slightly obnoxious.

[altoidboy]

Originally Posted by Amiekbm

If you can believe it, the car insurance is almost half of what we pay in New Jersey.

What part of NJ out of curiosity?

Final thoughts on Burbank unless you ask more questions: there really aren't any really bad parts of it, and all of it is pretty accessible.

If Hollywood is important to you, try and position yourself in the southwest corner because Hollywood's a bear to get to -- you have to take the 134W then surface streets to the 101S. If downtown is important to you, anywhere near the 5 is great.

Burbank gets quite beautiful on the E side of the 5 as it goes up into the hills. Of course, it also gets more expensive up there too.

[Drowningintherain2]

Originally Posted by 1200RT

I'll try to speak to that, since i was one of the people that commented.

Her post seemed to have a tone that she didn't want to work, but had to because of the costs of life in CA. Obviously, I misunderstood, as it sounds like she does, in fact, want to go back to work.

I think assuming people don't like women in the workforce is a bit extreme, and actually slightly obnoxious.

I did not get the tone that she didn't want to go to work but had to. I was speaking more to the poster above me anyhow who highlighted her post about wanting to go back to work and then put the eye rolling emoticon.
I'm not assunming that people don't want mothers to work, there are plenty of people on city-data saying that very thing....it's not an assumption out of left field, however, if it doesn't describe you no need to take offense.In any event, I'm not trying to hijack this thread, I saw what appeared to me to be judgement of this woman's decision to re-enter the workforce so I commented.

[1200RT]

Originally Posted by Drowningintherain2

I did not get the tone that she didn't want to go to work but had to.

she said: Although I am a SAHM now, I'll need to go back to work full time soon after the move.

To me, "need' means need. Not:

want to go back to work
plan to go back to work
am excited to go back to work
interested in going back to work
etc, etc.

Look, the point is, no one came out and told he she was making a bad choice by going back to work. Need implies that there is a NEED (in this case, seems financial) for her to work.

[Drowningintherain2]

Originally Posted by 1200RT

she said: Although I am a SAHM now, I'll need to go back to work full time soon after the move.

To me, "need' means need. Not:

want to go back to work
plan to go back to work
am excited to go back to work
interested in going back to work
etc, etc.

Look, the point is, no one came out and told he she was making a bad choice by going back to work. Need implies that there is a NEED (in this case, seems financial) for her to work.

Fair enough, although she has clarified. You are correct nobody said that she was making a bad choice, however a lot can be infered from something that looks like this when she posted about going back to work. I appreciate you clarifying your positon, I get it. If the poster above me does the same then I'll retract my statement....until then it's still valid based on what that poster highlighted.

[Amiekbm]

I am sorry the thread derailed! Listen, I love being a SAHM/WAHM. I wake up at 4am and work until my husband leaves at 8 and I bring in about a 1/4 of our income. But! Not only am I just about ready to rejoin the workforce, I am ready to leave a bit of the childrearing to the professionals. I only wish I could find a job that was school hours, so I wouldn't have to worry about before and after care for my school aged guys and full time, 11-hours-straight care for my littlest.

LA is fer sure more expensive that northern NJ in many ways. But honestly, I should have gone back to work three years ago instead of having a third. But would I trade in my darling youngest? Never, never.

Moving to LA is a great opportunity for our family. It will hopefully be easier for me to get a job out there, my husband has growth opportunities in his new position in LA, and I hear you all have nice weather out there. And trust me when I say that your opinions and well wishes have made it all the more easier to contemplate this move.

It certainly is a discussion that our country needs to have, the need for flexible working hours, working from home, sharing jobs, for all parents, not just moms. We seem to have been on the verge of it, but then the economy crashed, and it went waaaaay down on the list of things that are important to people.

[smokingGun]

also consider La Crescenta and La Canada/Flintridge.