My wife and I purchased our first home in 2017 both of us make less than 6 figures which probably means if we lived in a city or a more expensive housing market we couldn’t have purchased a house. In rural America if you even want to think about raising a family with more than one child you have to purchase a home there arnt rental units designed for families. However I’m very glad we purchased in 2017 because the price of the house we bought now compared to the. I’m guessing would have priced us out or made us live outside our budgetary constraints.