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Housing and transportation are kind of ridiculous. My mortgage did change a dime once I had a kid. Just dividing those costs because you have a kid and attributing that to them is preposterous.
But it would be pretty creepy you driving around to kids' soccer practices, gymnastics and whatnot.
hmm. I'm looking forward to the day the kids are out of the house and I can buy something much smaller, but in a more fun area. Maybe a condo uptown or a small cabin in the mountains. Gotta think that if I didn't have kids that's what I would be doing.
Yeah, people are different this way. My parents still own the house I grew up in, even though my brother and I haven't lived there for over 20 years. So I guess for them, the housing costs of having kids were negligible.Personally, I have no interest in living in a single-family home after my kids move out. So some of my current housing costs are fairly attributable to my kids, but I guess only the amount over what I would be paying without them, which I guess is hard to figure out. My housing would be different without them, but maybe not any cheaper, hard to say.
That's just a different lifestyle choice. I could never go back to apartment/condo life and I have no interest in living in 'cool' area. Personally, I love having a big yard, garden, pool, hot tub, dogs, etc. That choice determined my mortgage price, not having kids.
We live in a house 2X the size because we have kids. If it were just 2 people you don't even need 2,000 sqft.
I disagree. You need all the storage space for the cool stuff you can buy with the all money you are saving from not having kids.
My son is the best thing in my life, and it's not even close. And I wasn't someone who was sure they wanted kids.
Nah. Who said they had to stay bedrooms? You could turn one into an office, one into an entertainment room/theater, one into a gym/workout room, one into a love/boom boom room, etc. The possibilities are endless.
This says my two kids cost about $25K per year. Sounds reasonable.
