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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OP and I think I now realize I have been asking two questions.

The first question is what are the $200K+ paying jobs. Not industries. Actual job descriptions. If I were to network with someone, my ask being “how do I go from (my job) to become a (high paying profession)?”

The other question I guess is where are all the middle class people. The median household income is $110K, but single family homes are a million dollars. Which I think I can answer myself. Among my friends with normal-people jobs, with $100-200K HHI, this is where they live:

- Mid-sized apartment in a DTSS high rise 
- Townhouse in Germantown
- Two different couples bought decent sized SFHs in MoCo, but they had parents helped with the down payments
- One couple moved to PG county to buy a SFH, which they could afford in 2018 but probably couldn’t afford to purchase today
- One single guy bought a 900sq ft SFH in Rockville, sold to him directly by a friend, below market rate 
- Older people who bought in the 80s and then saw their homes appreciate tenfold

Maybe my overall question should have been “What normal-people jobs pay enough to live the 1990s white picket fence ideal” and the answer is none of them 😂[/quote]

There are more people now and more competition, DC metro as other urban metro areas with solid job markets had become more dense, which means housing near job centers and with good amenities had become very pricey and up and coming areas had been pushed further out. And this isn't just something that happened in the recent years, salaries were already out of sync with COL back in the 90s.  Those of us who graduated in mid-late 90s couldn't afford this white picket fence dream of owning a comfy SFH in a conveniently located suburb with amenities.  We lived with roommates and in suburban studios just like you after graduation and years later our first homes were studios in the city or townhomes in exurbs or tract SFHs in low COL states.  What is your idea of a starter home?  No, you can't get a 4000sq.ft upgraded home in the inner belt suburb with great schools on your salary being the lone earner, but neither could we decades ago.  [/quote]

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