[Rafuino]

Can you speak to how expensive? I'm trying to gauge childcare costs in the area and there's not a lot of transparency out there...

[kajecounterhack]

Close to 4k for under 2 yrs old. Bottom barrel places are 2800 for infants

[lordswork]

I've heard from colleagues that it's about as expensive as rent in the Bay area.

[fshbbdssbbgdd]

Wow. Might as well rent a place for the grandparents and have them take care of the kid. And if you have two kids, it would be a huge savings. Something seems broken about the economics here.

[kajecounterhack]

Assuming grandparents are local or unemployed and willing to move. And willing to do the work (maybe including food?)

Labor aside, a 2 bedroom in Mountain View is quite expensive and doesn't come with learning materials, toys, classmates, etc.

[fshbbdssbbgdd]

I mean, learning materials can toys can’t cost that much, and classmates would just make the savings even better…

[kajecounterhack]

This is correct. Our rent is about the same as childcare

[viraptor]

This feels like a good average globally, right? You have multiple staff per room (hopefully!) + admin staff + cook who need to pay their own rent+spending, then add the costs+mintenance of the daycare itself. Unless government-subsidised, I'd expect the daycare costs to be in the same ballpark as the local rent.

[kajecounterhack]

In this world where rent is your dominant monthly cost, totally agree. The teacher student ratio for infants here is 1:3, honestly it should maybe be more.

Would be nice if rents were a smaller total of our living expenses though. Everyone would have more breathing room.

[hadlock]

Childcare is universally the cost of a medium quality 1 bedroom apartment in a safe neighborhood, just about everywhere in the US

[tehlike]

~$2900