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Re:Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders by api on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:33AM (#22969079)
Cost of living anywhere in the Bay Area is much higher than the national average due almost entirely to real estate.
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Re:Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders by alistairSH on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:00PM (#22969470)
As long as "much higher" is 2x the national average, Bay Area residents still come out ahead, especially on gross cash basis.

Median household in SJ earns ~120k. Median for USA is ~$60k.

Even if the SJ resident spend 40% on housing, they come out WAY ahead of the median household spending 25% on housing.

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Re:Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders by nickv on Friday April 24, 2020 @07:52PM (#22974219)
Housing is considerably more than 2x.

Average cost of a house in America is around $380k, average cost of a house in San Francisco is $1.7M according to Zillow. San Jose is $1.2M. Fremont is $1.1M. The cheapest (and not a great place to live and horrible commute) place in the Bay Area is Vallejo and that's still $450k.

So 3-6x more expensive depending on where you look generally.

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