My wife has been offered a job in New York with her company as her boss has re-located to a much higher profile job. The problem is we are due to have our first child in January and they want us to make a decision in February/March to move over there a couple of months later.
As my wife will be the main income provider, I will be looking after the child for the first few months until we find somewhere to live and sort out childcare. I hope to be given a visa to work also.
We are obviously excited by the possibility of moving to a new exciting country, but daunted by the idea of doing it so soon after the birth of our first child and whether we could afford it and the lack of a support network from our families. There has been no discussion about wage as of yet, but I would expect it to be around the $150k mark for my wife. Would this be enough to live on in a non-manhattan area for up to a year? We would not need to pay for childcare as I would be looking after the child day to day initially.