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Salary Needed To Buy a Home In The US (reddthat.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

What the fuck America is so Goddamned cheap.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Compare the median salaries in those places to chart, doesnt seem very cheap to me.

I live in phoenix.

Less than 7% of people make enough to buy a home per this chart.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Interesting, where are you living?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's not home price, that's salary requirements.a house in San Jose costs $1.6 million, not $375 thousand. You're paying about $9 thousand a month before taxes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Huh? A typical salary here couldn't afford any of these. 0.

We've literally made our society completely dependent on marriage/dual income. For those of us that are perpetually single and don't have a WFH tech job that could go anywhere, homeownership is as obtainable as a unicorn.