I was interviewing for a job out there when the dot com crash occurred, so it didn’t happen. But, it had gotten far enough along that I was perusing houses for sale. The only thing I could find even then than I could remotely afford that I would even want was a 1,200 sf dinky ranch with a tiny sliver of a Pacific view in Half Moon Bay, needed everything, in dire need of repair. True fixer-upper, handyman special. $350,000, which I thought was insane. No telling what that house would sell for now, though. Probably in excess of a million. I would’ve gone through two price collapses and would have had to maintain a very high paying job to get from then to now, which seems to me a questionable proposition, so it’s just idle speculation. Couldn’t have happened, not for me.
We've all been through sticker-shock. And then kick yourself later for not buying in. Half Moon Bay is becoming the new Sausalito, with high-prices. Probably over a million now. My daughter and her husband moved to Des Moines, Iowa, because prices are too expensive here in SF Bay Area. They bought a fixer-upper for $80,000, huge 3-story building on a large lot in a nice area. You can't buy a garage space here for that price. She took a job there at half the salary she was getting here, and is happy because expenses are less (they bought the house in cash all paid for, would have been just a down payment in SF).