Or leave a particular metro. Or leave California. If you are open to moving when you have to, most real estate problems are non-issues. Once you limit yourself

Or leave a particular metro. Or leave California. If you are open to moving when you have to, most real estate problems are non-issues. Once you limit yourself to a hard requirement of living in a particular metro or state, you are subject to the market. Everyone reading this can afford a home somewhere decent in the US, but you have to be willing to move. How many people reading this in the Bay Area would even consider moving to Gilroy or Benicia? Not many I presume.