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SDJay

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29. My Wife and I Each Earn Six Figures
Tue May 3, 2016, 02:23 PM
May 2016

and we live in North County San Diego. Still, if it wasn't for the fact that we happened to have saved our money and happened to be looking for a house when the market imploded in 2008, we couldn't afford to live here comfortably. We've thought about selling our house, but then we realized we'd have to buy something at current prices which would be all but untenable unless we wanted to start giving things up, such as space and the like.

The house we live in now would be less than $100,000 in a lot of smaller cities in the middle of the country, so it's not as if we're in some mansion. It's a basic, three-bedroom/two-bath, 1,500 sq. ft. house. Nothing even close to fancy or big.

Big cities are all seemingly headed this way. If we were 5 years younger we would probably be living somewhere else even if we were generating the same incomes.

It's too bad.

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Is it even race-specific, as opposed to class-specific? Who below a certain income level... villager May 2016 #1
This may be the true bottom line. HuckleB May 2016 #8
My mom still lives in the Bay Area house we were raised in in the 70's. That's what allows me villager May 2016 #12
Money noiretextatique May 2016 #2
Gentrification. kwassa May 2016 #3
This is happening in Seattle, too. It's becoming far whiter. LisaM May 2016 #4
I live in Oakland wryter2000 May 2016 #5
There was an article on DU just yesterday underpants May 2016 #7
Those figures are for the respective metropolitan areas. KamaAina May 2016 #9
Really? wryter2000 May 2016 #20
I guess because many people from Contra Costa commute to Oakland KamaAina May 2016 #21
Contra Costa is a weirdly shaped county Prism May 2016 #28
It's because the data would then be at the same aggregation as standard Federal statistics. Gormy Cuss May 2016 #39
Thanks wryter2000 May 2016 #41
The cancer of gentrification is displacing many people in many places Armstead May 2016 #6
I actually have a job offer on the table in Seattle for which I need to decide UMTerp01 May 2016 #10
I don't even include such places in job searches whatthehey May 2016 #14
Exactly!!! UMTerp01 May 2016 #33
I was seriously considering... skypilot May 2016 #15
On average black people earn less hollowdweller May 2016 #11
I think there is some reading in to the data here. northernsouthern May 2016 #13
I suspect the people leaving are a pretty diverse bunch Sen. Walter Sobchak May 2016 #16
No offence to all the affluent white liberals here... hunter May 2016 #17
Certain Bay Aryans like the concept of minorities in the community... Throd May 2016 #19
Bay Aryans?! KamaAina May 2016 #22
It's been used since I move here mid-70s Retrograde May 2016 #24
But in this context, the "Aryans" means something. KamaAina May 2016 #25
It does. Throd May 2016 #27
Bottom sentence says it all. LiberalArkie May 2016 #35
racism is when one race thinks they are superior to another group because of race thebeautifulstruggle May 2016 #32
Why do you consider yourself "middle class" when you have to live with roommates? hunter May 2016 #34
1970s called. They would like their memes back. ieoeja May 2016 #37
What are you talking about??? hunter May 2016 #38
Dilution? Retrograde May 2016 #18
Oregon has a history of institutionalized (and Constitutionalized) racism. No wonder they can't MADem May 2016 #23
I'd guess housing prices Proud Public Servant May 2016 #26
My Wife and I Each Earn Six Figures SDJay May 2016 #29
Gentrifiers are starting to get their mitts on West Oakland and areas like north of Fruitvale Prism May 2016 #30
Start buying properties in Richmond if you can. Throd May 2016 #31
Transit access in El Sobrante is tepid at best. KamaAina May 2016 #36
Gentrification transforming face of Oakland FrodosPet May 2016 #40
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