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An Orange County homebuyer with a 3.5% down payment would have to earn just over $420,000 a year to afford payments for a median priced home.

  • ms.lane
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    1025 days ago

    Only 10 times higher?

    Come to Adelaide, South Australia, where it’s ~15x the median wage!

    For the working class it’s closer to 20-25x higher…

  • Flying Squid
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    625 days ago

    I can’t say I love living in Indiana, but it’s things like this that don’t make me regret moving back from L.A.

  • @devilish666
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    525 days ago

    I wonder…if the house prices are skyrocketing that means no one will buy a house, if no one buys a house that means house prices will go down right…? right…? Like the basic economy taught us

    • @return2ozmaOP
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      325 days ago

      A lot of foreign investors are just parking their money in empty homes here.

    • @[email protected]
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      325 days ago

      The boomer die off is coming - when that generation starts to really drop like flies we’ll see millennials offloading property and a likely deflation of the market. The issue right now is that boomers are making so much money off their properties that many of them own multiple homes and a fair few have dozens of rental properties.

      The danger is that corporate landlords start scooping up the estate sales.

  • @Corvidae
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    125 days ago

    That’s why multiple people share housing. Housemates.

    • sunzu
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      825 days ago

      Volume is half from the peak and near lows… They rich just keep trading more expensive houses between each other, which results in higher median teade price…

      Clown economy for capitalist circus.