If you feel so strongly about this, just buy now. Get it over with. Find a place that you can afford, and buy it now. Be done with it. If you want exactly what you want at the price you want it at, you'll need to wait. If you can cut corners and still be happy with it and really don't mind losing $100k to $200k+ down the road, than by all means, you really shouldn't be waiting. Some people want to wait for a discount, and have time to wait. Sure, great. If you don't want to wait, and get all bent out of shape for not being an owner right now, well go out and buy. You're spending $2300/month on rent, find a place that's like a 2-3 bedroom, get rid of any extra crap that you currently need to store inside your rental garage, and live there for a few years. Trade up when your financial situation changes.
Why do you insult other renters and call them losers when you're a renter yourself? It's pretty self defeating. You know, instead of say "you can't afford X" and shut your mind off of doing anything productive, why don't you re-think your question into "how do I go about affording X?" If you resign yourself to just complaining about affordability, you're just bathing yourself in self-pitty, and it does you no good. Get out and do something about it. Find a place you can afford to live int and make compromises if that's what you really want.
