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>They bought their houses at ~ 1M before the housing craziness started.

"Only 1M"

And I mean sure I could have bought a big house in Palo Alto for 50k or whatever in 1950 but that's not really relevant anymore.

Maybe dual tech worker couples can make it work but but there isn't a large pay increase for most other fields in the Bay.



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yes for sure, that kind of salary bump outside tech is not easy.

But at the same time if you can make it happen it has a huge impact on your net worth/retirement/kids college ect.

Even in this example, ppl in bay area gained a million in networth in just home price while the 400k person didn't make any gains. I don't know where houses are 400k these days though.


>But at the same time if you can make it happen it has a huge impact on your net worth/retirement/kids college ect.

Well the joke was always you had to have an all cash bid 20% over asking in the Bay before the run up anway so you already had to have a pretty massive net worth to buy in the first place.

>I don't know where houses are 400k these days though.

Basically anywhere outside the Coasts in the US?


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