I actually grew up in Portland, in SW- and having been outbid by 10 and 20% on multiple other houses I got to experience the heat from that housing market. For

I actually grew up in Portland, in SW- and having been outbid by 10 and 20% on multiple other houses I got to experience the heat from that housing market. For us, we're moving back home. So maybe when I moved to Seattle I was the asshole and now I'm just a movie trope small town dude moving back from the big city to raise the kids. EDIT: I'll add that having grown up there really helped me know what were completely BS/bubble prices on properties. Houses with bids going to $560k where the neighborhood was in the high 200s, low 300s a decade before. Where you know the traffic sucks, the neighborhood isn't anything special, and generally know what the neighborhood is like crime/people wise made it so much easier to just look at a house price and say no without getting caught up in the frenzy.