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That's a nice straw man, but that's not the median for the US.

Not even for bay area white collars is that reasonably the median, given how expensive houses are here. Most rent unless they're past 30-40 or won the startup lottery.




Huh? The median sufficiently-aged U.S. resident absolutely owns a home (home ownership rates are 65%+), and it's indisputable that the median home size has been growing at a good clip:

http://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf


Parent was speaking of the Bay Area in the last sentence. Housing is much cheaper elsewhere.




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