100% agreed. It won't end well, and politicians being politicians (and voters being voters), we're going to continue this mad show as long as possible, ensuing we get the worst possible outcome here.

The weird bit is that San Francisco prices make more sense than where I grew up (suburban New Zealand). Sure a house in SF might cost $1.2m but two people working in tech can expect to make $250-300k all in by their early thirties. That's only $200k more than a house in New Zealand, but you're working with an income that's easily 2x the size.