It's not easy, and there are trade offs, but we did. We have two kids out of the house. One on their own, the other will be a senior in college next year. We have a younger child in 5th grade that we home school.
We felt it was better for the kids to have one parent at home versus sending them to day care and spending a ton of money on that. It just wasn't worth what the take-home was after paying for that.
> When you add it all up, it’s not uncommon for a single child to cost a normal, middle-class family something like $1.1 million, from birth through the undergrad years.
Brookings says it’s about $310k per child for a family with 2 children, without including daycare or higher ed costs [1]. US median lifetime income is roughly $1.65 million [2]. Daycare averages somewhere between $10k-$15k/year per child [3]. In state public school tuition is ~$100k for 4 years [4]. Median sales price of a house is ~$425k [5]. Total cost of that house with mortgage interest and taxes over 30 years is roughly double that.
I'm the UI Architect for Labcorp's Clinical Development division. Previous to that, I was the UI Architect for public-facing products.
About 6 years ago, we made a decision to re-platform from AngularJS. The candidates were Aurelia, React and Angular 2. At the time, I was pushing Aurelia, hard, even going so far as to contact Rob Eisenberg to discuss our needs.
We created a POC using each framework. React of course, was the smallest compiled source. Angular was the largest. Performance-wise, React was also the fastest, followed by Angular.
In the end, we decided on Angular for a number of reasons, one of which being that given the number of developers transitioning from AngularJS, we felt it would be easier to hire for.
I agree with the author in that React isn't well suited for Enterprise applications. I can't imagine having a one-off implementation for every application, where I have to re-learn the structure, libraries, etc, every time. that seems awful.
Aurelia has some really pretty features, and overall I feel it's a good framework that unfortunately just hasn't gotten a lot of attention.
Django was kind of the same way. Rails had the hype; Django had better architecture, and of course its dynamic admin. Django has caught up in a lot of ways because overall it's a well architected framework.
