To be fair, these people making 400k probably don't live in central/north CT. They're in Westchester where houses start at 1 million for anything decent.Right ATL you can EAT on a 6 figure salary. hell even in my state of CT I can get a lot of house for my money And land.
look at this shit in fucking CT.
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this was 750k. you are seriously over leveraging yourself going for anything over 1 million in a lot of places. Even on a 400k salary lol.
Doesn't mean they couldn't spend far, far less on a house.