I took on the Boulder housing market. The market is winning.

I'm a senior engineer and I used to work in Boulder (I don't anymore but I still live here for now), when I would tell a Boulder-company that was interested in hiring me that I needed to make enough to purchase a modest 3-bedroom house with a sub-15m commute, they would hem and haw and tell me they can't go that high (>$150k). It's annoying because that's just enough to be close enough, that's not even counting actual career value, experience, etc., just living costs.

The good news is now I work from home and am moving out of Boulder soon, so hopefully this becomes a non-issue, at least for me.

I don't understand the city's decisions that led them here, it seems like they hamstring the city every chance they get.

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