Stellas I live inside the loop and my commute to work is still like 45-50 mins to get home in the evenings and my work is only 12 miles away from my house. Traffic here is brutal. I keep joking that we should have just moved to the suburbs and gotten a bigger house.
Yep, like half of dh's evening drive is just getting out of downtown. It suuuucks.
Post by sparkythelawyer on Aug 23, 2013 11:14:49 GMT -5
I would move. Three hours of commute each day? No thank you. PLUS, you are always beefing (rightfully so) about how he is not home enough. This just eats away into more time he is not home.
Besides, didn't he get a pretty sweet raise with this new gig?
I would move. Three hours of commute each day? No thank you. PLUS, you are always beefing (rightfully so) about how he is not home enough. This just eats away into more time he is not home.
Besides, didn't he get a pretty sweet raise with this new gig?
He doesn't have a three hour commute. It's 1.5 hr per day. Total.
AND THIS IS WHY I HAVE TO QUOTE THINGS, TOLEDO. OTHERWISE I SCREW STUFF UP :-)
Regardless, this is still a lot of time in the car, and a lot of time away from home. I'd move.
Yeah. Dh and I are suspicious of the older houses a bit. I think they were originally better built than what's built now, and they all look lovely inside, but I might live in fear of foundation damage or something.
Stay in a young house you like that is a bit snug, with solid but not exceptional schools, where your dh commutes 1.5 hrs per day.
Or
Move to an older (like mid century probably) house in a nice neighborhood, maybe gain a bedroom, in a city school district (at the mercy of zoning, so have to be prepared to end up doing private school), where your dh commutes 45 mins a day. This would add $700-1000 a month to your house payment.
The schools would be the main problem I see with number two. (and affordability - but I remember he hot a raise with the new job, right?)
What are private school costs in your area? What is the admissions process like?
Around here private K-8 runs 30K/year/kid and the admissions process is grueling. You can't count on it being an option (unless you want to buy a building and have a kid who is likely to ace the admissions testing). That is part of why we bought our house in this school district. After buying a house, we don't have an extra $750K for private schooling even if the kids got in.
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Yeah. Dh and I are suspicious of the older houses a bit. I think they were originally better built than what's built now, and they all look lovely inside, but I might live in fear of foundation damage or something.
Our 1950s house looks lovely. And we did $6k of basement foundation work a year and a half ago. Fucker.
All good food for thought. Thanks for the input guys. Dh did get a big raise with the new job, which is why we're even contemplating moving further into town.
If he can handle the commute from here, though, we could just coast financially, which means a lot.
I think, if I could be guaranteed good k-12 public schools, moving would be great, but I just don't have enough info to know about that yet.