I don't think this should be surprising. How much you make has little to do with whether you live paycheck-to-paycheck. You can have a lot of expenses on non-d

I don't think this should be surprising. How much you make has little to do with whether you live paycheck-to-paycheck. You can have a lot of expenses on non-discretionary things. I don't think it's healthy as a society to be thinking of having kids as "lifestyle inflation." To me, it speaks more to the real crisis of urban centers like SF that have become so inhospitable to raising families due to terrible exclusionary housing policies that have crowded out middle income/upper middle income families.