cerveloguy wrote:
I can't imagine why anybody would want to live in a place where you're accommodation poor on $200,000 a year with no hope of purchasing a house unless you're willing to commute 2 or 3 hrs each way. Find a little town out in bumfuk, nowhere and you can purchase a nice house on a third of your salary. I've talked about this with my daughter. She lives in Vancouver and has zero possibility of purchasing a house on her salary. I've told her if she'd move to my neck of the woods I could help her with a down payment and she'd be able to easily carry a mortgage on half the salary she is making now. Makes all the sense in the world to leave Vancouver but she won't because she tells me she "loves Vancouver too much". And then she asks me where would she meet a guy in the boonies. 33 yrs old and still single. Not like meeting the right guy has been working out in Vancouver after being there for ten years. Kids:-(
Same here. My daughter is 31 and lives in Seattle. She and the guy I think she is going to marry both make good coin. Both realize there is zero chance they can afford to ever buy a house in Seattle. They could be making similar money a lot of other places and have a nice place. They don't even have to live in the boonies to do so, just someplace more reasonable. But, she says she loves Seattle too much. The boyfriend, not so much, but he loves my daughter, so, he's screwed.
Now, my son, on the other hand, has finally come around. 30 years old, just got married, lives in Henderson, NV. He and wifie finally got the "adventure" out of their systems and are ready to start a family. So, they are moving back here where they can afford to do so.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers
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