@Elizafox This. We had to move away from our wonderful neighborhood on the Eastside because we wanted to own a home, rather than rent for the rest of our lives. And we couldn't find any house in King County--not even a fixer or a hoarder home--for less than $500K (and that's before potential buyers proceeded to bid up to around a million).

The sad thing is, if we'd been able to scrape together a down payment when we first moved to Seattle in 1996, we could have bought one of those same houses for $250K. But we never quite had enough.

Billionaire options are orders of magnitude removed from the rest of us.