Affordability is a Feeling

I've stretched and rationalized my spending more than you'd think. I once paid rents that would sound absurd to anyone outside San Francisco. Not because they made sense, but because I believed my income would grow.

We're moving to Berkeley next month, where I grew up. We'll be paying more than twice our current mortgage.

Hope is the variable most people leave out of the affordability equation. And when it collapses, affordability becomes fear. I feel it in my body.

I recorded a short piece about it.

Give it a listen →