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Turns out the age old adaptations of having proximity to relatives really do matter. US is doubly vulnerable here - people move around a lot and the infra for childcare is simply not there.

This is being discussed from the well-off perspective of remote-capable jobs. The real pain is being felt by medical and other front-line workers. Gov. really need to look for options to support those in critical in-person jobs, starting with medical/fire/etc and then opening up to all essential jobs categories.



A lot of us were born in places that are no longer economically relevant. The retired are less geographically restrained - I wonder why they don’t more often follow their adult children. For example some of my Chinese coworkers don’t need to go back to China for childcare; their parents and in-laws rotate shifts here.

Also keep in mind, if both generations have kids at 30 (or even younger in a more traditional setting), grandparents are also still working age when the child is born.


>I wonder why they don’t more often follow their adult children

Because the cost of living where their adult children are reflects the incomes of their adult children.


That's fair, but the way I've seen this done is with a 2-bedroom apartment. A young family will need that eventually anyway. The second bedroom can be the caregiver's until it becomes the child's.




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