It is really rather funny moving to the bay area and making a very high salary that still comes nothing near the kind of money you'd ever need to buy a house. P

It is really rather funny moving to the bay area and making a very high salary that still comes nothing near the kind of money you'd ever need to buy a house. People are buying houses cash and bidding over asking and it would still take me over a decade just to make the 20% downpayment. It makes me really not sweat 10-20$ spent on something I might enjoy, like a coffee or ice cream.