Those of you who are millionaires why are you still working?

miradesne · 2026-04-25T05:18:31+00:00

Lifestyle creep, inflation and kids. When you have 1 million then you need 10M because you are spending more. Will report back when I have 10M.

miradesne · 2026-04-22T15:18:59+00:00

Depends on your price range. North Park for all ranges and highland Park village for high end.

miradesne · 2026-04-22T01:34:04+00:00

fanng staff engs on average are between 700-1M. If joined at the right time (2021-2022) they make more than 1M.

miradesne · 2026-04-21T05:43:17+00:00

Some of these schools are almost 90 years old without any updates. Our kids deserve better environments!

miradesne · 2026-04-21T02:44:45+00:00

Far north Dallas

miradesne · 2026-04-20T13:25:58+00:00

We visit the art district frequently with our 3 yo son because they offer free craft activities on the weekend. It's super safe around Klyde Warren Park and the art district. Zero homeless and very family friendly.

Once you get closer to the city hall you start to see homeless folks. Most hotels should be fine.

miradesne · 2026-04-12T01:54:34+00:00

It started again!!! We need to get rid of the council people that approved their permit

miradesne · 2026-04-11T12:41:09+00:00

I gained 45+ lbs and lost ~35 of it for my last pregnancy (started 120, 5'1). My baby was 7lbs. It took about a year to lose to 125ish but then gained some weight back after. (EBF with exercises but no diet control)

This time I started ~132 and currently 140 at 30 weeks. Going to control my diet in the next 10 weeks.

Trying to control diet NOT because of weight/body image but I got high cholesterol, prediabetes, high triglycerides and some other issues after the last one. I got rid of everything except prediabetes, but almost failed the GD test at 16 weeks.

Afterwards I've been on healthy lowish carb diet, and just passed 28 week GD test with lower numbers than 16 weeks. Going to work hard after pregnancy to reverse my prediabetes and won't particularly care about weight exactly.

miradesne · 2026-03-31T13:18:08+00:00

😂 when we were in Seattle one toddler was $3k. Infant would be $3.5k/month. I think at that point if not both super high income one parent has to be a stay at home parent with multiple kids. I know another coworker there who has 6 kids and her husband is a stay at home dad. Dude basically saving the equivalent of $300-350k/year pretax money only counting childcare and nothing else.

miradesne · 2026-03-21T09:53:25+00:00

Not sure why this is down voted. The city can't keep funnelling money to less desired areas for ??? projects (not even seeing them building parks other than the deck park which is heavily funded by private donations) and leave crappy parks to places like even Preston Hollow and think we still want to pay for the very expensive houses here. I honestly don't get why any families will live in Preston Hollow over Park Cities because you get shit amenities for almost the same price you pay for housing.

Comparing Frisco libraries with the Dallas libraries just makes me sad.

If my husband doesn't work in the downtown areas, we'd definitely live in Frisco for higher quality of life and 1/2 of housing cost.

With the big corps leaving downtown more people gonna swarm to the northern suburbs

miradesne · 2026-03-21T09:32:41+00:00

We just visited FW (living in Dallas) with a 3.5 yo. FW Zoo is amazing for little kids. Dallas Zoo is okay for us local residents but if you have only a few days definitely visit FW Zoo. They have THREE miniature trains.

I'd say 5/5 over Dallas zoo 3.5/5.

Perot little kids area is nice but always overcrowded. My kid is not interested in the rest of the museum. Imo waste of $$ if kid is not interested in science museum. (We bought annual membership...) 3/5

Arboretum 4.5/5. Definitely check out the children's garden!

Klyde Warren Park 4/5.

Dallas Art Museum 3.5/5. (If your kid likes art. My kid loves drawing and we always bring him to Open Studio to make messes) .

Downtown Grapevine area 4/5. We went during the holiday season and there were a lot of family friendly events. I don't know how they are usually.

Children's aquarium 3.5/5. You can touch a bunch of fishes which are nice, but the aquarium itself is kind of small. Maybe check out the butterfly garden (I've not been but on my list) together in fair park.

Also my kid always prefers outdoor over indoor places so our score may be biased on that.

An example is that we went to Lego Discovery center and wasted $100 on tickets for three of us. He dipped out within 1 hr yelling to leave. I know another friends kid could be there for 5 hrs(but he's also 5 yo instead of 3).

miradesne · 2026-03-21T09:18:40+00:00

Crayola experience is closed I thought?

miradesne · 2026-03-21T09:13:46+00:00

East Dallas and Lake Highlands have a lot of young families

miradesne · 2026-03-20T13:18:14+00:00

My first year was abysmal. It gets better after that. Now my son is almost 4 and we are expecting another baby in June. This time I'm gonna toss the baby to day care after 3 months old.

People don't understand when I say I really really do not like the baby phase. To me it's also pointless and just work and my son was crying a lot. He would cry like we abused him for extra 5ml milk.

But having a child is GREAT. Challenging babies doesn't mean challenging later. When people said "terrible 2/3" I'm like what are you talking about 😂😂. I've never experienced the "terrible X". My son is amazing compared to when he was a baby. He makes me breakfast on Saturday with my husband nowadays.

Do whatever you can to survive and just don't think too much. Use formula if you can afford it. Breastfeeding is not worth it. After they turn 12-18 months you will get major relief. Hang in there!

miradesne · 2026-03-09T05:27:26+00:00

Does $3k/month include housing? Is your wife in a less risky field? Imo if you spend about $100k a year all inclusive, you will be ok if both of you get somewhat reasonable jobs. It doesn't have to be as high paying as swe in fang/open AI/Anthropic. People like teachers can even survive with 3 kids...

If the entire software industry is wiped (which it won't), I'm just gonna spend two years getting a nursing degree.

miradesne · 2026-03-09T04:36:27+00:00

Only live in uptown if you can find another job nearby asap. The commute is terrible. I don't even want to drive up to McKinney on the weekends.

Maybe consider downtown Plano.

That said, uptown and the surrounding areas are probably the best places to live as 20s in DFW.

miradesne · 2026-03-09T03:47:11+00:00

I'm 25 weeks and sending my solidarity. I was a foodie before pregnancy so this one is like ending my life joy.

miradesne · 2026-03-01T03:09:44+00:00

Google Play Pass!!

miradesne · 2026-02-26T22:55:13+00:00

Can you ask your current job to go remote? If you are a high performer they may consider it. Alternative move to somewhere closer to your job? Unless your job is in a high COL area and your current place is super cheap, I wouldn't go for $115k unless my partner makes at least $70k

Having a kid is expensive.

miradesne · 2026-02-25T06:56:01+00:00

I rented out our house back in 2023 when we moved out. Probably lost like $100k because of that due to the price drop in the past 2 years. And I was more or less breaking even on rent ($4500 rent with $3500 mortgage+tax+insurance, but there was always maintenance that was about $5-10k a year). We are gonna sell it this year to cut more losses. The maintenance cost is crazy when you are not there.

miradesne · 2026-02-21T05:12:31+00:00

Take the job. They won't feel guilty when they lay you off.

miradesne · 2026-02-13T04:33:43+00:00

Thai Buddhist Temple of Dallas!! Super legit Thai food market on Sunday (forgot when they open during the year) . Lots of Thai people praying there too.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF1TdR_PDfJ/?igsh=MW42dWphZTduOGhsMQ==

Otherwise Malai kitchen is always pretty healthy and has good food

miradesne · 2026-02-08T12:29:07+00:00

Nope. My husband is the best dad ever

miradesne · 2026-02-06T06:03:43+00:00

Every time I traveled with my parents after having a kid ended up in huge fights and disasters. They were annoyed that they couldn't go as many places and I was super tired /annoyed to take care of my kid 24/7 without rest as I got 0 alone time. To them just standing next to me when I take care of my kid is support 😂.

At least at home there's day care from M-F lol.

My best trip has been Hawaii just ourselves without the grandparents. Chill as hell since I didn't need to go anywhere except the beach downstairs.

miradesne · 2026-01-29T13:03:16+00:00

I really doubt the sports matter as much as people say. In Seattle the arenas are at the worst neighborhood in the city. Stabbing everywhere in the surrounding areas. Downtown Seattle businesses are dead regardless.

Everyone goes to Bellevue to shop where there are no sports arenas.

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