Simply plug the numbers into Redfin or Zillow. This data is easily accessible.

> And if $400k is too much for a house, how do you make Seattle work?

If I’m going to have to spend this much to make Kalamazoo work I’m going to be seriously second guessing why I moved there in the first place. If I lose my remote job at the startup I worked at and suddenly am looking at making 60k a year as a windows Sysadmin at western Michigan university or Pfizer (if I’m lucky!) that house isn’t going to seem very cheap- even if my house is only 200k a year. In fact it’s going to start to seem really fucking expensive once you consider the tax implications.

And yes there are cheaper neighborhoods to live in Kalamazoo. They don’t really inspire you much to want to stay there- that is unless you like guns and meth.

I can afford more than 400k in Kalamazoo but that’s not the point. The point is that if I’m going to chose to spend every waking hour living somewhere; I’m going to choose a place that doesnt make me miserable.

Gotcha. So basically housing prices were irrelevant, you just don’t like Kalamazoo.

Which is fine. I was just trying to decipher your comments about housing.

Sure; I don’t like things that suck and cost too much. Nice work.