High paying jobs come and go over the decades. Mortgages and associated lifestyle expenses are very hard to get rid of in the short time a major pay change can occur.

If the price is off-putting, let your senses guide you and be off-put by it and find somewhere that makes you excited and filled with a sense of opportunity for you -- and be sure it's well within your resources so it doesn't pinch immediately the second taxes go up, something leaks, another thing breaks, and the retaining wall needs work.

Home ownership costs so much more than you expect; buy well within your means if you want a happy home lifestyle.

Good luck on your house search. It will work out if you're open, but I found I had to be more open than I thought.