The rising cost of raising a child in the U.S. — from housing to childcare — is pushing some families to consider building their lives abroad instead. As reported recently by CNBC, Washington-born couple Cassandra Tresl and her husband, Alex Ninman had been living in the Czech Republic before their daughter was born. When they welcomed their daughter in 2020, the birth set off a much bigger question: Should they head back to the United States or build a life overseas?
When they started pricing out life back in the U.S., from housing to childcare, the numbers didn’t add up. They decided to plant roots and bought a house in rural Italy. “I really thought that if I had a kid, I would go back to the States,” Tresl said, “And then it ended up not happening, because I realized how much more expensive it would be if we did go back”.
