[osmala]

College can never become too costly for a single child of two well-educated and well-employed parents with 18+ year career behind them. It's just a fact that in such situation colleges will start decreasing cost and tuition to get students in.

Also cost increases are stuff that look good in marketing material to increase desirability of that college over other colleges and that trend will hit a wall. Also there is increasing political movement to get college tuition costs down.

What I get from this is: Either USA is totally screwed up country or you two value your personal lifestyle a lot more than having a child. Child isn't really that expensive since even poor can afford it. Its expensive to have child with expensive lifestyle.

[ruste]

From what I've seen, a lot of it is people getting used to a standard of living above their means and being totally okay with going into debt to maintain it. People get used to having a lot of things they really don't need and end up spending a considerable amount of money on them. Upgrading phones through their cell phone provider for instance. I know a lot of people that just think "oh yay! I'm due for an upgrade." I think many don't realize that the phone isn't free. They could buy the phone outright and it'd be cheaper. They just pay for the phone through a higher cell phone bill for several months. Things like that add up.