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>Every time I mention the high price of homes... Location. Location. Location. 1,480 sq. ft., $23,000 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/113-Bernal-Ave-Hickman

by flubert 10y ago

>Every time I mention the high price of homes... Location. Location. Location. 1,480 sq. ft., $23,000 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/113-Bernal-Ave-Hickman-KY-42050/2140814520_zpid/ http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/113-Bernal-Ave-Hickman-KY-... 918 sq. ft., $18,000 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-W-B-St-Ramona-KS-67475/2104566833_zpid/ http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-W-B-St-Ramona-KS-67475... 1,056 sq. ft., $24,999 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/943-Wisconsin-Ave-Beloit-WI-53511/40548188_zpid/ http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/943-Wisconsin-Ave-Beloit-W... 1,134 sq. ft., $27,000 http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4751-Bellm-Dr-SPC-20-Klamath-Falls-OR-97603/75167888_zpid/ http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4751-Bellm-Dr-SPC-20-Klama... 2,064 sq. ft., $28,500: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/908-Lelia-St-Newport-AR/109048103_zpid/ http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/908-Lelia-St-Newport-AR/10...

galdosdi 10y ago
Jobs? Jobs? Jobs?
- flubert 10y ago
  Live in SF bay area and save up $50k (One year if you could make $120k(?) and live with your parents?). Buy two $25k houses, one to live in, one to rent out for your living expenses. Semi-retire. ?
  - galdosdi 10y ago
    That's great for the small minority of people like you or me for whom that ("just make $120k. just go save $50k annually.") is a realistic achievable plan. Everyone else who's not in this small minority still has a right to complain about coastal/urban housing prices.
    - flubert 10y ago
      Yeah, just to be clear, the question marks in the original were my attempt at saying I was unsure of how realistic the proposition was. Certainly hanging around HN, you could easily come to the conclusion that $120k is essentially a starting salary for software engineers in the Silicon Valley area (and how that's not enough, since the VCs are always taking the bulk of the value). But I don't have a feel for how "true" that is. My own personal story is that I live on a large plot of land in a large house, and support a wife and 4 kids on a significantly smaller income in fly-over country.

by flubert 10y ago

galdosdi 10y ago

Jobs? Jobs? Jobs?

flubert 10y ago
Live in SF bay area and save up $50k (One year if you could make $120k(?) and live with your parents?). Buy two $25k houses, one to live in, one to rent out for your living expenses. Semi-retire. ?
- galdosdi 10y ago
  That's great for the small minority of people like you or me for whom that ("just make $120k. just go save $50k annually.") is a realistic achievable plan. Everyone else who's not in this small minority still has a right to complain about coastal/urban housing prices.
  - flubert 10y ago
    Yeah, just to be clear, the question marks in the original were my attempt at saying I was unsure of how realistic the proposition was. Certainly hanging around HN, you could easily come to the conclusion that $120k is essentially a starting salary for software engineers in the Silicon Valley area (and how that's not enough, since the VCs are always taking the bulk of the value). But I don't have a feel for how "true" that is. My own personal story is that I live on a large plot of land in a large house, and support a wife and 4 kids on a significantly smaller income in fly-over country.