Quote Originally Posted by time4fun View Post
Lord I wish you could buy a house on a $120k salary here.

It's $170k in the SF area and $216 in SJ.

Even that is misleading. It assumes 20% down. The median home is $825k. Someone making $170k probably doesn't have $170k down payment sitting in their bank account
Why? I don't care where you live, if someone is making $170k and isn't able to easily put away $100k a year in savings, it's a them problem. They are just too unwilling to make the sacrifices needed to do it.