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You don’t buy a home on one income any longer.

I mean… you can choose to live in a less expensive area. Especially if one person is a software engineer where remote work is available. Will choosing to live in a different area mean you’ll go from making $500k TC to $150k or $100k? Perhaps .

We grew up in a duplex and my brother and I shared a bedroom for years because my parents wanted my mom to focus on taking care of us. I genuinely didn’t realize that our house was technically “worse” than my peers, until I was chatting to my dad about it last year and he mentioned the choice they made.

If you don’t want to make that choice, that’s OK too. I choose to listen to death metal music, I don’t expect others to make the sane choices as me. :)

We've definitely considered it! Unfortunately both of our families are from the same area and it is very high CoL. Not only parents, but grandparents, siblings, aunts/uncles all live within 30 minutes of us... Luckily our parents help out with the finances a bit to help us through the first base stretch of our mortgage.

While it would ease things for us financially to move, we'd be giving up A LOT with family to do so.

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