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Yea, at this point I'd only get a home if I was comfortable with severely limiting my job prospects. Even in the same metro area I've moved apartments after getting a new job so that my commute is around 30 minutes rather than the 1-1.5 hour commutes a lot of my home owning coworkers have had

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I'm in the same boat ... except I ended up buying to insulate myself from a ridiculous housing market since there are lots of jobs within a 30min trip of my place.

The glorification of home ownership really baffles me, although I still ended up purchasing after careful consideration of things like:

http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrib...

This is the situation my wife and I are looking at as well. We don't have kids yet, we want to put down roots and barring another housing market collapse, the area we currently live in is getting expensive.

We paid off huge student loans first, instead of getting into housing. Housing doubled. We're priced out of our local city.

Also .. I highly suggest that if you want to buy a place, do it before the baby arrives. After the baby, you are so fully absorbed in adjusting to your new life, that taking time out to go house hunting is a herculean task. Every house we bid and lost after the baby represented a much higher cost and led us to bid more than we thought the house were (to the tune of 50K in my opinion - we still lost the bloody bidding wars).

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