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> If you have a family, a $1.5m house (which barely gets you a shabby 3-bedroom in a high cost city) Uh... median house price in Seattle is less than half that
by abrahamepton 8y ago
> If you have a family, a $1.5m house (which barely gets you a shabby 3-bedroom in a high cost city)
Uh... median house price in Seattle is less than half that. $1.5 million for a house in Seattle will get you an extremely nice house. Extremely nice.
If you disagree, it's because you have incredibly high standards for what constitutes "nice". That's fine, but it makes it more than a bit silly to complain that you "can't afford" a different lifestyle.
You're just making bad choices at that point.
- throwaway-1283 8y agoI didn't mention Seattle...I'm referring to NYC or SF.
- abrahamepton 8y agoSo literally 2 cities. Wildly expensive cities like DC, Seattle, Boston are still highly livable on $1.5 million. Honestly, if you're regretting your life choices so severely but you're unwilling to live anywhere but NYC/SF, you're either not really regretting your life choices that much, or you're just really bad at making good decisions with your life.
- throwaway-1283 8y agoI'm making the assumption that there are more jobs that pay $500k+ in Silicon Valley and NYC. If you can get that salary in 2nd cities like SEA or BOS then of course you're doing better than someone making the same in higher CoL places.