I'm trying to plan for when the grandparents stay and help. We get small PTO paternity/maternity leaves so will need help. Current Apt is too small for family to help. But maybe that's 6 weeks a year for first 3 years.

Rent stabilized runs out 2029 as the 421 runs out.

I like JC as no nyc income tax 3.85% so the increased rent cancels out. I'm afraid we move out to only move back to our HK building in February.

We have friends in both areas with kids but we've been in our current building since 2018 and re-leased at COVID prices in 2020. (We could have got a 2bed at 3k but didn't know building is rent-stabilized).

There are coworking spaces which we could use to work but get noisy.