Meanwhile in San Francisco, house prices have increased an average of 6.6% for the past 60 years. https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employmen

Meanwhile in San Francisco, house prices have increased an average of 6.6% for the past 60 years. https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employment-construction-and-cost-of-san.html https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme... If he's taking the national average, which will include plenty of low-demand areas around America, then his comments are not very enlightening for most of the readers of the NY Times who tend to live in high-demand. Add to that, you still have to pay to live somewhere.