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The Bay Area is a relevant outlier here - $1k/month would not cover the monthly property tax on a mortgage for a crappy place.

• rpmisms 5y ago
  The Bay Area is ridiculous in terms of home pricing. We could likely move there and do ok financially, but I'd rather get a nice plot of land in Appalachia and have some farm animals, spend my evenings working on marksmanship and whatever car I'm wrenching on at the moment.
  • fossuser 5y ago
    Yeah - and WNY is really great in terms of housing costs (I grew up outside of Buffalo). There are trade-offs to that cheaper cost too though. Mostly in terms of job availability (though maybe that's changing with remote work), stuff availability (foods, people), and centralization of knowledgable people in software (not many). Weather. Schools and variety of public opinion was also not great, but that's a problem most places and only really matters if you have kids. I wouldn't want to raise my kids there though.
    • rpmisms 5y ago
      > I wouldn't want to raise my kids there though. Congrats, you found the reason why we're leaving. It's a combination of that, tax rates, and gun laws. Upstate NY doesn't need to suffer for the problems of NYC. > Mostly in terms of job availability (though maybe that's changing with remote work) It is. I'm starting a new job in Orlando on Monday.