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My wife couldn’t for 8 years… Childcare was and still is a nightmare. She’s going to apply for her first job since we moved from Ireland. We had zero benefits etc all this time.
It’ll suck. Big part of her money will be spent on childcare. But we can no longer afford to live.
It’s also where all social life happened. I got my first job working for a bricklayer at the pub when I was 15.