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Diamonds' post is getting bogged down so I figured I would start it here. Where do you live that full day daycare is just over 300? When DS was born six years ago the cheapest crappiest place ever that had cribs butted against each other, did not have the state minimum workers and a toddler sleeping in an office was over 600 here. We went with the cheapest decent place at sething like 725 and left when I found they were playing The Wiggles all day. His next place was also considered inexpensive at 950 and we left there unhappy too. All other places were over 1100. I live in central NJ, not close to NYC or Philly so it is not as expensive as places closer to the cities. I have heard of in home places charging 600something but I have a friend with a true horror story about in home and I would not do it.
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  • ambrvanambrvan member
    Are you talking a week or a month? Either is outrageous to me, but I PRAY you're not talking weekly.

    Where I live, full time daycare ranges between 80100/wk. But where I live os a very small and rural. Everything ia very cheap in comparison to "the outside world." I wonder how we will ever afford to move where I would like to go and am trying to talk DH into moving there within 6 years.
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  • cole2144cole2144 member
    I live just outside of Philly. SD attends a Pre-k program in Philly at a private school. It is a typical Catholic school. When we lived in Bucks county she attended a Keystone Stars Daycare that was well known in the area which was 620 a month. The place was nice and even had a inground pool, basketball court and whatnot.  I was mistaken, the 330 a month we paid was her private Catholic school daycare before it combined into the regional Catholic school it is now.
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  • mamastichmamastich member
    My 2 cents I live in San Diego and my in home DCP is 800 for full time. It seems to be middle of the road.
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    I live outside of Philly, south of the city, and 620 is crazy cheap. When my son went to a center is was 800 for the month and that was for an average place. And 330 for private school in Philly is ridiculous. Pre school for my son is going to be 200 a month and that's only 7 and a half hours a week. I'm jealous!
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  • Littlejen22Littlejen22 member
    Ambrvan, monthly. What do you pay? Somehow you wrote you payover 80000, lol.

    If you move in 6 years I assume you would be done with daycare although you are still really young.. You you need more than 95 hours everything is pretty expensive, in home is often much cheaper but scares me.
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    imageLittlejen22:
    Ambrvan, monthly. What do you pay? Somehow you wrote you payover 80000, lol. If you move in 6 years I assume you would be done with daycare although you are still really young.. You you need more than 95 hours everything is pretty expensive, in home is often much cheaper but scares me.

    I think she meant she pays 80-100 dollars a week. We have never paid more than 700 a month for SD`s daycare and she did not go to in home daycares. Also like I said now for a pre-k program at a private school in Philadelphia is 316 a month plus afterschool care which is after 2:30.  

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  • Banana44Banana44 member

    I also live in PA - about an hour outside of Philly and I pay $1100/month for infant and about $1000/month for pre-school.

     I think in the Philly metor area you can get daycare from about $700/month up to about $1500/month - just depends on which center.

    And my sister lives in Ocean County, NJ and was paying about the same that I do.

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  • ambrvanambrvan member
    imageLittlejen22:
    Ambrvan, monthly. What do you pay? Somehow you wrote you payover 80000, lol.

    If you move in 6 years I assume you would be done with daycare although you are still really young.. You you need more than 95 hours everything is pretty expensive, in home is often much cheaper but scares me.


    Yes, I meant 80100about a week. Sorry. Before we moved this Summer to a different, smaller, but nicerI county DS daycare was 105/wk. Now his daycare is 85/wk at the new place. Both places are actually pretty top notch. In home centers scare me, too. I was VERY picky regarding daycares.

    As far as moving goes, I don't just mean daycare. I mean everything
    and the cost of living in northwest TN a very rural and typically impoverished area is very low compared to everywhere we have looked at. But I think once my husband is done with school, and with my field of work, our incomes should adjust appropriately enough for whatever area we move to.

    That is, IF I can convince DH to move. I have begun working on him early, and he knows my goal is six years. So hopefully, it all works out.
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