In SF&#x2F;London&#x2F;etc?<p>All of them. &#x27;Occupations&#x27; don&#x27;t get you a middle class lifestyle any more. You fundamentally have to play the capitalist game and maximise your income, you can&#x27;t just &#x27;do a good job&#x27; any more.<p>Look at London. A family home in zone 6? ~400K.
20% deposit, that&#x27;s 320K -&gt; ~90K annual income required to buy it.<p>Ninety thousand pounds. I don&#x27;t think people really &#x27;get&#x27; how much this is. It&#x27;s 7x minimum wage.<p>It&#x27;s not a wage that you work hard and get, it&#x27;s limited to an exclusive elite. You might be able to manage that, I might be able to manage that, but the city as a whole is knackered.<p>I don&#x27;t think people understand what it means that massive swathes of the population can never own a home, or can never save after paying for their rent.<p>You&#x27;re saying that teachers, bus drivers, shopkeepers,  don&#x27;t deserve anything other than to go to work over and over again.<p>It&#x27;s a total bloody disaster. I hear people moaning that tube drivers earn 50K. 50K! These guys run the god damn city, without them you couldn&#x27;t get to work, and you want to pay them so little that they&#x27;re unable to ever buy a studio flat.<p>What&#x27;s the solution? I will work hard and earn lots. Everyone who can&#x27;t do that is knackered. That sounds like a reasonable way to run a society - winner takes all, everyone else gets shafted.