For people who have bought a house in Seattle, how did you get comfortable with the prohibitively high cost and due to that, to the level of compromise you had to make in what you could buy? Accepting “good enough.”

I previously purchased in a lower cost of living market so I am comfortable with buying/owning. The thing I’m struggling with is accepting that even stretching to the max of what I can pay, I still have to make significant compromises and downgrade from my old house. Hard to accept.

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Never known anything different. Didn’t grow up here but never owned a home and never expected to. Circumstances changed and saved enough to buy a place. It’s completely overpriced for what it is, but it’s mine and I love it. Guess to your point it’s all about expectations. I had none.

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When I bought in Seattle, I was also coming from a lower-cost area, so it was a tough adjustment. I had to settle for a smaller space in a less ideal neighborhood, but I focused on the long-term benefits, like the potential equity growth. It wasn’t easy, but it felt more manageable once I accepted that compromise was part of the process.

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North of the city anything west of i5

Yeah I know what you mean. It’a a lot of lowering of expectations.

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