This is pretty much it, at least in the US. Lots of places in the Midwest where the median house is less than 2.5x the median income. But if you want to live

This is pretty much it, at least in the US. Lots of places in the Midwest where the median house is less than 2.5x the median income. But if you want to live in San Jose, that ratio is 10x. Even in Portland it's over 5x. A remote tech worker can buy quite a lot of house in the midwest if they keep all or most of the salary they were getting while living in a coastal city.