I live in Portland but I’m in the same boat you are. My wife and I make a decent amount of money ($120k+) but a combination of student debt, crazy housing prices, and lack of wealthy family members who can “gift” a down payment leaves me fairly hopeless that we’ll ever be able to buy a house of our own.

We’ve seriously considered moving to the Midwest or the South where houses are affordable, but neither of our jobs allow fully remote work, very few cities in those areas have any sort of tech presence, and we’d be leaving pretty much every family member across the country.