How interesting, I am also an Oracle DBA ! How weird! Yeah it baffles me how people are able to buy these homes and cars. I make almost six figures and cannot see the reason why people can pay 6k a month on a home. It must be the both hubby and wife each earn 100k otherwise how can they make a 2k car payment and a 5-7k mortgage payment?
Also employers are not wanting to pay good salaries here in San Diego compared to Los Angeles and New York given the high cost of living here.
That and 99.99% of businesses that employ professionals are located in UTC, Sorrento Valley/Golden Triangle, Poway/Rancho Bernardo and Carlsbad areas which are far north of Chula Juana.
I live in Point Loma/Ocean Beach area and waiting for prices to drop in Point Loma/OB and Pacific Beach as this area is where I want to buy a condo or small 2 bedroom home close to the beach since I’m a single guy and like the area. But prices are very high still for these crappy apartment condo conversions and if I want a real home with a real garage I have to settle for a place in Mira Mesa or Poway/Rancho Bernardo unless I wanna pay 2 million for a similar place in Point Loma.
Its funny because salaries have not increased much for IT folks in last 5 years.
Outsourcing to India and China has not helped either.
