In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”

Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by geebee on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:14PM (#14195774)

You know, maybe not. Even in the excelsior, a 1200sf ft house that is liveable (not remodeled highly, just liveable) will run you $900k. It can go up from there easily.

It's possible, I suppose... You'd need to be a one income family at 100k, because there's no way you could cover that and child care. But yeah, a stay at home spouse and a working spouse who brought in 100k might be able to make it work south of 280.

EDIT: just realized you said Bay Area, not San Francisco. That changes things.

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by Veelox on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:29PM (#14197677)

Even with your edit I would like to chime in that I got a condo in San Jose that is 3 bed, 2 bath for <500k. It isn't fancy but it is home.

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by linkregister on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:52PM (#14204723)

When did you buy this condo? Surely not recently.

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Re:In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income” by Veelox on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:39PM (#14247931)

I closed in December of 2016, as I nice side affect I got a rate that was a little lower then they are now.

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