Arguably the price of the car is still near enough to estimate; 15K being a median figure in the ballpark. It's also not JUST the home price, it's the career,

Arguably the price of the car is still near enough to estimate; 15K being a median figure in the ballpark. It's also not JUST the home price, it's the career, being able to expect to stay in the same area for a long time and generally do well. I happen to live near Seattle, but I think the same could be said of a majority of the 25 most populated metro-areas in the US, if not a similar proportion of cities in most other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic... I'm extrapolating that any place with >5% population growth over the ~10 year period is in a similar bind due to various policies.