What are the disadvantages of 'later' potty training?

[Vamonos]

Just wondering - as I can't really think of any disadvantages, apart from the cost of nappies. I'm really not looking forward to potty training - what with stressy 'accidents', extra laundry and inconvenient dashes to public toilets, what's to like?

btw by 'later' - I guess I mean nearer the age of 3 than 2, for example, though of course 'early' and 'late' mean different things to different people.

DD is 2.7, and despite experimentation with the potty, seems to actively prefer nappies, and is quite definite and vocal about it, so I'm happy to leave it till she shows more interest. But does it somehow become more difficult to get them out of nappies as they get older and more entrenched in their habits? I suppose I am just hoping that she will wake up one morning and decide to do it herself, but maybe that is unrealistic.

God yes - would have been ecstatic if my mother had trained dd and ds. In fact, when she was a little acid re: ds being late to start, I did actually suggest that if it was so important, perhaps she'd like to do it (with the added suggestion that perhaps his first girlfriend could potty train him - so anti the idea was he). She declined.

oh don't get me wrong I heart my mil (yes really!) but dd2 is a drinking/weeing machine (1 litre of juice a day) and we had to spend every 30 minutes finding a loo (she didn't like the travel potty) when out. I honestly think she wasn't ready as she still has no bladder control.