On: Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

[chrisweekly]

Childcare exceeds all other household expenses (incl housing) in a huge % of families. Wish I had stats to cite, none avlbl atm.

[mrkurt → chrisweekly]

Oh yes. That wasn't a factor for us (stay at home parenting!) but school expense would have been if we'd tried to get our kids good schooling.

[eatbitseveryday → mrkurt]

Staying at home to parent means a missing income. I would include that as a cost.