Pretty much why dating was a waste of time for lions. Considering gender roles, the wife is probably a teacher making $100,000 & the husband is an engineering manager making $220,000. Their jobs were stable enough to invest in real estate. Lions jobs were most certainly not. https://www.marketwatch.com/picks/my-wife-and-i-live-an-average-life-in-the-bay-area-making-320k-last-year-we-bought-a-house-for-200k-over-asking-now-we-dont-want-to-live-in-it-should-we-get-professional-help-01672699874?siteid=yhoof2 Saving for later. Statewide rent control limits it to 10% or the local inflation rate, whatever is lower. What's a low mortgage payment going to be in 10 years? The government needs to either print money like a motherfucker or downsize. Spoiler: it's not going to downsize. No-one is good at predicting the bottom or the top of a market so no-one will ever know they're buying into the top of a housing boom. Lions suspect most yah...