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What are you imagining the typical rate is in much of America. When we lived in the city we had a range of about 225 to 300 per week as of last year. Outside of

What are you imagining the typical rate is in much of America. When we lived in the city we had a range of about 225 to 300 per week as of last year. Outside of the city we pay 160 per week. The real issue was the waiting list…

ok_computer 2y ago
Lol, over 400/week is standard in eastern PA, US. Many daycares sampled in our search. Medium cost of living suburban area. Also over 1 year wait list.
Wolfenstein98k 2y ago
If you have a wait list, the price isn't high enough
- fshbbdssbbgdd 2y ago
  Or maybe you value the consistency of full enrollment that comes with a waitlist over the additional revenue you could earn with higher prices. Could be the case if there are high costs to changing the size of the business. Imagine there’s a law that you can only have 4 children per caregiver. Your capacity is 8. Lose one and your revenue is down 12.5%
- truckerbill 2y ago
  A good example of where free market ideology falls flat
  - eru 2y ago
    How so? This doesn't have much to do with a free market. The same applies if eg the government provides a service for a fee, or otherwise gates access to something. Eg H-1B visas to the US should arguably be auctioned off.
  - Wolfenstein98k 2y ago
    You can't criticise free markets where there is no market, let alone a free one. "Supply and demand" is not a free market claim, it is accepted by everyone. I'm just pointing out that the NHS exchanges monetary cost with temporal cost - you're paying with your time rather than your dollars, for access. You're also paying dollars via tax, but that's unrelated to access. A nation can accept or even demand this trade-off, and many do - but support tends to drop when it is made explicit.
kaitai 2y ago
You are a lucky person. I just looked up my tax statements for 2022 and I paid $1341.67/month for an older kid (not infant). Waiting lists are atrocious and everywhere (and many places charge a $75-150 deposit for the waiting list alone); we got in fast because it was a new location. I am in the Midwest, not a coast.

ok_computer 2y ago

Lol, over 400/week is standard in eastern PA, US. Many daycares sampled in our search. Medium cost of living suburban area. Also over 1 year wait list.

Wolfenstein98k 2y ago

If you have a wait list, the price isn't high enough

fshbbdssbbgdd 2y ago
Or maybe you value the consistency of full enrollment that comes with a waitlist over the additional revenue you could earn with higher prices. Could be the case if there are high costs to changing the size of the business. Imagine there’s a law that you can only have 4 children per caregiver. Your capacity is 8. Lose one and your revenue is down 12.5%
truckerbill 2y ago
A good example of where free market ideology falls flat
- eru 2y ago
  How so? This doesn't have much to do with a free market. The same applies if eg the government provides a service for a fee, or otherwise gates access to something. Eg H-1B visas to the US should arguably be auctioned off.
- Wolfenstein98k 2y ago
  You can't criticise free markets where there is no market, let alone a free one. "Supply and demand" is not a free market claim, it is accepted by everyone. I'm just pointing out that the NHS exchanges monetary cost with temporal cost - you're paying with your time rather than your dollars, for access. You're also paying dollars via tax, but that's unrelated to access. A nation can accept or even demand this trade-off, and many do - but support tends to drop when it is made explicit.

kaitai 2y ago

You are a lucky person. I just looked up my tax statements for 2022 and I paid $1341.67/month for an older kid (not infant). Waiting lists are atrocious and everywhere (and many places charge a $75-150 deposit for the waiting list alone); we got in fast because it was a new location. I am in the Midwest, not a coast.