We're doing ok. We locked in for 30 years at 2.9%, and I (gratefully) now make enough / bought a humble enough home, that on an annual basis I can almost just pay off our entire mortgage. Savings also cover multiple times the remaining mortgage. No other debt.
We're paying for that though. Work is
bananas level of stress. I don't see my kid through the week, and on the weekends I'm so traumatized by flash-backs/flash-forwards of what's going on / will happen, that I struggle to be present. Plus sometimes I work through the weekends anyway to take the edge off problems left unsolved. And at some point it went from solving technical problems (stressful but hella fun), to engaging in human-level chaos (stressful and hella
not fun). Management says I could always demote myself if I want
how does that work
.
Meanwhile my wife is bored as hell taking care of kiddo on her own, and pining to go back to her career that she loves back in Toronto.
I think it's time to go.