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Comment by vskarine | Hacker News Reader

That's kind of insane. I wonder what the numbers are for San Francisco...

Appearently some real estate agents have targeted ads in Facebook for "Googlers in San Francisco". I clicked on an ad I saw the other day. This is the listing:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/pmf,pf_pt/house,townhou...

I could never afford it with my Google income but the real estate people who put up the ad believe a Googler in SF should be able to afford it.

$1,247,988 is the rough valuation. Their suggested EMI is around $6.8K/month. Would it be in reach for people getting $200K/yr? Are there enough Googlers getting that much?

I make $250k/yr but still can't afford that

Two married senior devs can easily afford that.

As for everybody else... Not so much.

Can't imagine too many of those...

Can Facebook target on the condition that user and spouse both work at Google. Or AGI bracket?

Also, it's a perfect example of the difficulty buying into this market. Check out the Tax History.

The owner -- possibly not even living there -- is only paying $1245 a year in property tax, or a rate of 0.06%.

If you buy and move in you'll be paying 25x that.

  YEAR	PROPERTY TAXES	CHANGE	TAX ASSESSMENT	CHANGE
  2015	$1,245	--	$52,629	+2.0%
  2014	$1,245	+44.8%	$51,599	+0.5%
  2013	$860	+14.0%	$51,367	+2.0%

Holy shit! That looks a lot like the house from Disney Pixar's Inside Out.

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