Buying $400k home in Seattle (first time home buyer)

[Lemmus]

...LOL ...you have an "understanding" wife ...mine knows a toy when she sees it ...and if we did own one, she'd be driving it 

[StartingOver10]

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@Lemmus wrote:

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@ezdriver wrote:

...but I'm still wanting to buy a Porsche 911 these days. After all, I need a car. lol

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...a Porsche 911 is NOT a car, its a toy ...once upon a time long long ago I owned one ...these days a Volvo gets me there 

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lol...my husband bought one in the late 1980s and it started the road to divorce....obviously it didn't cause the divorce, it was a symptom of trouble....

To this day I can't look at a sporty car without thinking of it

[frugalQ]

a 2007 car with only 16 miles on it?!?!?!  or do you mean 16k? 

[ezdriver]

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@frugalQ wrote:

a 2007 car with only 16 miles on it?!?!?!  or do you mean 16k? 

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16k miles.

[ezdriver]

Back to the OP's challenge... $400k does not buy much home in many parts of the country. I sold  my three-bedroom condo in Ridgefield CT for $650k...in 2005!

[Anonymous]

EZ came in and said-

"After all, I need a car."

So do you need IT, or want it?

[Lemmus]

...I live in Palm Beach county in FL so 450k isn't high end by any means ...but it will still get you a nice home as long as you don't want more than a postage stamp to put it on ...but I have been amazed to hear some of the tales here about 450k getting you a lot less in places like SF and NYC metro ...its not just the weather that brings half of NY & NJ here to retire ...I can go an hour west of where I live now and buy 3br/2ba/2Acres for well under 100k ...nice places that you'd be ok with raising a family in. 

[StartingOver10]

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@Lemmus wrote:

...I live in Palm Beach county in FL so 450k isn't high end by any means ...but it will still get you a nice home as long as you don't want more than a postage stamp to put it on ...but I have been amazed to hear some of the tales here about 450k getting you a lot less in places like SF and NYC metro ...its not just the weather that brings half of NY & NJ here to retire ...I can go an hour west of where I live now and buy 3br/2ba/2Acres for well under 100k ...nice places that you'd be ok with raising a family in. 

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So we are neighbors???

[Anonymous]

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@Lemmus wrote:

...I live in Palm Beach county in FL so 450k isn't high end by any means ...but it will still get you a nice home as long as you don't want more than a postage stamp to put it on ...but I have been amazed to hear some of the tales here about 450k getting you a lot less in places like SF and NYC metro ...its not just the weather that brings half of NY & NJ here to retire ...I can go an hour west of where I live now and buy 3br/2ba/2Acres for well under 100k ...nice places that you'd be ok with raising a family in. 

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what uncle lemmus said.  In many places 100k household income not all that much, but here in Alabama a guy lives very well on that salary.  Just a guess but he prolly lives as well as guy in NY on 300 or more?

[Lemmus]

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@StartingOver10 wrote:

So we are neighbors???

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...this is news? ..thought we'd covered that a couple times ....lets just say you're among the "elite" here, eh 

..if I hadn't decided to go USDA, you'd have been my first choice ...but alas, even Loxahatchee isn't rural by their standards