Comment by georgeburdell

I live in the Bay Area. My wife and I, early thirties and a few years out of grad school, make about $300k combined and in our area (Sunnyvale) there are maybe 2 or 3 houses for sale at any given time under our rough budget of $1.2 million, which would be below the median list value for a house in the city. I say this as dispassionately as possible, but I would really like to know more about who is able to afford these houses. The article gives one example (doctor married to an engineer, no age given), but I wonder if that case is typical.