Move to Hayward or other. Build your earning power and your assets. Buy a smaller house&#x2F;condo in the skirts. Fix it up a little through sweat equity. Sell and move to a larger condo&#x2F;home. Rinse&#x2F;repeat until you make it where you want to.<p>I couldn&#x27;t buy in my folks&#x27; neighborhood for over a decade out of college. Now I can, but don&#x27;t choose to.<p>Seems like entitled thinking to assume you can live where your parents worked their collective lives to attain.