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By "in-home child care hobby business" I assume what nocoiner means is: If San Francisco childcare costs are $25/hour why is anyone pouring coffees or flipping burgers if looking after three kids brings in $75/hour?

Obviously some people don't have the space - but many do. Surely it's lucrative enough that there shouldn't be a shortage of supply?

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SF childcare costs are usually around ~20 an hour per child in 1:2 (under the table, where folks who can afford it get an indirect subsidy from the government via Medi-cal and dodging fica) nanny shares where the nanny goes in your home. It’s a vaguely healthy market from what my friends tell me.

Doesn’t work in the suburbs where you won’t find a family 3 blocks from your house with a similar age child. You would think it would be more common though given how much useless sqft folks in the suburbs have.

"in-home child care hobby business" means stay-at-home parent.

But in the non-urban areas around here there are in-home childcare setups, that have to follow specific laws. I assume something could be done similar in urban areas, but the size of house that is amenable to it may be limited in number.

Cannot wait to leave my children with some rando with excess space whose alternative career prospects are flipping burger for $25/hr.

My parents did that for me and it was totally fine.

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