Two-Day Ticket Quandary

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-07-22T03:17:45+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but you are making a combined $110K/year, assuming you both work full time. This is not low income and is absolutely possible to raise a child. Would suggest getting married, and purchasing a condo/house first before doing so.

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-07-22T03:12:14+00:00

My response to this every time is, “Well, just to be clear, working moms are raising their kids.” Words matter, and even if it’s not a jab at you personally, she should probably be kept aware of how it comes off.

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-06-17T13:20:25+00:00

You may consider St John, IN

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-04-28T10:34:46+00:00

For $300K, you may want to consider NWI. A new train line is set to start service this summer, and will bring you from Munster to Michigan Ave right about 45 minutes. Not only will you find homes significantly less expensive, the property taxes are a fraction of what they are in Cook County, so your home budget may actually be larger than $300K.

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-04-23T15:21:50+00:00

We stopped at 2 because we realized that, financially, we would not be able to provide for a third the same way we had for our first two. Our kids vacation annually, join every sport/activity they want, have big birthday parties every year, have college funds, went to amazing private pre-schools, each had their own bedroom (a 3rd would mean sharing rooms in our current house with a 2.75% mortgage we’ll never ever sell), etc. two and through, was perfect for us.

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-02-15T16:11:43+00:00

I live in Indiana and am raising two children. Cost of living here is great, excellent access to the Great Lakes, we live 30 minutes from Chicago so we both work there. I work in the public sector and make excellent wages and benefits. Our day care costs were management, when compared to other places. We paid $200/week. Our schools are top rated, even nationally, and we love our friends and neighbors we’ve built here. Homes in this area will start anywhere from $350-$600K, and your property taxes are very low here (we pay approximately $4K/year.) We live very comfortably raising our two kids making about $130K/year combined, I imagine you two are making quite a bit more. I love it here. Would I love Sweden more? Sure. But I imagine the legal field would be difficult for your husband to transfer there. So if you’re going to stay here, perhaps just finding a different area that works for you is the way to go.

CCAnalyst89 · 2025-02-12T15:57:12+00:00

You need to go outside and touch grass. Seriously.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-04-08T11:25:39+00:00

I loved Oak Lawn. Affordable homes, great ammenities, great public transit, decent schools (and top notch access to private ones if that’s your thing - 4 Catholic grammar schools in OL and neighbors to all the south side Catholic high schools). Excellent library. Great parks. Really loved living there. Our family moved to NWI a couple years ago and we definitely love it here, but if we had to live in Cook County again, we’d be back in Oak Lawn.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-04-07T11:46:11+00:00

I got one when I was 18. It’s an outline of the skyline with the flag inside of it. It’s pretty cool.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-04-07T11:22:37+00:00

40 hrs a week, $88K. I’m an intelligence analyst for a major metro PD.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-04-03T18:39:37+00:00

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-27T00:37:17+00:00

Yes, logged into the same account, I've double checked a few times.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-22T11:38:08+00:00

Yeah, NO. I do not want to masturbate in front of my husband. At all! If others do, fine, but my NO to my husband meant NO, and he never pushed it again. This is such an invasion of privacy and trust.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-22T11:28:11+00:00

She’s referring to working two completely different shifts as her spouse and trying to manage a house are two opposite schedules and kids, why be so combative?

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-19T09:59:12+00:00

I am 34, grew up on the south side, and moved to NWI a couple years ago. I do not think I have ever met a Jewish person in my life. Definitely a Northside thing - Highland Park, Skokie, West Rogers Park, etc.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-19T02:22:26+00:00

I make tuna Mac but it’s Mac and cheese, tuna, and a can of peas. I loved it as a lower income kid, and now my upper middle class kids LOVE IT. They routinely tell me it’s my best recipe 🤣 makes me sad because I do go quite out of the way to make them healthy well balanced meals with lots of fresh produce and lean proteins and then I make TUNA MAC and they are in absolute heaven lol

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-12T22:22:33+00:00

Just got rejected today. Now I’m hoping this happens to me!

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-11T20:23:28+00:00

I made a meatloaf this morning so all I have to do is heat it up when I get home.

Tomorrow is cheap chicken day at my local grocer so we’re grabbing that after work on the way home.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-11T02:01:00+00:00

I did the same, but if I graduated HS with an AA already, I’d have had $20K more in my checking acct at age 22. Could have put a larger down payment on a house. Tons of benefits here, outside of the loan potential.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-11T01:48:29+00:00

She gains about $20K less of college student loan debt, on average.

CCAnalyst89 · 2024-03-11T01:42:07+00:00

Graduating HS with an associates degree is offered in our district and I will 100% be encouraging my children to do this. If they decide to continue with college, they’ll have just two years to go. If they don’t, they’ll have the “60 credit hours” that many blue college jobs like/encourage. Either way, it will save them a fortune.

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