How much for a house where you live?

[potluck6]

My son and wife are looking to buy a house where he lives the bay area  a 3br,1bath 2car garage maybe starts at 400,000 lot of zeroes there. They have good jobs and can only afford maybe 300,000.with a dwn payment of 10,000.Some cities they have looked at are about 200,000 but a far commute.Told him to look at 2br well still very expensive.

[aflyingmonkey]

San Francisco has the highest real estate in the country.
The areas around the Silicon Valley have to subsidize their civil servants, police, teachers - so they can afford to live in the community.

Here in So Cal, the average in a safe area is about the same $400,000.  That's in the suburbs, not close to the beach or city.

[kleenex40]

For under !00,00 u can get 4 br here but it would be a fixer upper