I'm not stating it a solution to any problem. I'm just stating a fact that there are plenty of people who lived here a long time and bought their house cheap by

I'm not stating it a solution to any problem. I'm just stating a fact that there are plenty of people who lived here a long time and bought their house cheap by current standards. I've lived in the bay area for a long time and my own unique circumstances made it difficult to build up savings to buy a house for a long time. People think everything was easier in the past but salaries were less also.