If they saved enough for a house in three years, either they have a highly lucrative job or they’re in a market where homes are cheap or some combination of the two.
3 years is definitely a good amount of time to get a solid down payment. It’s not like a 25-year-old is going to buy a house with cash.
Either they work oil wells in bumfuck South Dakota or they are a SRE with a Silicon Valley company.
Or they don’t live in the US at all. Wild concept, but entertain it for a second
My area, you can get a house for 100k, a better one for 200k. If you’re saving most all income from a 75k job like programming, seems reasonable to be able to afford a house in that timeframe. But that’s with very very little spending and still pretty cheap houses.
Where do you live that houses are 100-200k and programmers make 75k?
Where are “programmers” making less than 75k in the west?
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK (outside of London)…
You work on the internet, my God
Half our team is from Spain and we pay us wages.
Don’t be silly, market abroad
No, you don’t pay us wages. You adjust for local CoL like every company on earth, or you wouldn’t hire in Spain.
Even in a fantasy world where your company is a unique snowflake that pays 150k a year independent of location, those are a dozen jobs for a country of 50 million people.
As a note, my company, a fortune 50 company, does not adjust for cost of living. They adjust to cost of labor.
So if they were to magically hire overseas (not a thing they do), they would pay people from Spain average Spanish wages for the industry.
Portuguese flag
Pretending like you chose to live at home
lol
