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by geebee 2679 days ago
25k/year for full time preschool would be pretty typical in SF. If you have 2+ kids in daycare or preschool, that can more or less wipe out an income. The problem is, it takes two incomes to pay for the typical mortgage or even the rent on a place big enough for, well, a couple of kids.

If you have a good health company sponsored health plan in the US, the kind you get at google or gov't jobs, I think you and your family are probably ok. It's no way to run a country, though. And yeah, there's always that fear that an ambulance will take you somewhere out of network... yeah, you described it pretty accurately as a negative tail event, it would be unlucky but not at all impossible, and it could be ruinous financially[1]

[1] it happens: http://www.sfweekly.com/news/s-f-general-rethinks-high-bills...