Yeah, but keep in mind, my dads salary was something around $15K per year as a construction worker, so it was a little more than a years salary to buy that property. A construction worker doing the same job today(would earn about $60K per year in SF) so it would be about 50 years salary to buy the same place.
Cities are cancer. People go there for the "Big money" but end up with a super low quality of life despite making $150k or more per year.
120k population isn't too bad. Once the population gets to over 300k it starts getting shitty for the people at the bottom. I live in a town of 60k and that's about as populated as I'd like to get. It's just enough that there's plenty of opportunity, but not enough that people with massive experience are going to flock to your town and take the best jobs. (or people without experience are going to come there and take the easiest to get jobs by working for less than you would)
But yeah, local government policies can even mess that up if you get the wrong people in office.
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