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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9351212" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I put in LA County and Cook County in separately in addition to including all of Illinois and all of California for housing, didn't I?That California is more expensive than somewhere doesn't mean something has become less affordable there, does it? Wouldn't that be if income didn't also go up enough to keep up. I give the percent changes in housing price in Cook county and LA.&nbsp; I didn't find the change in income for the counties (happy to be given sources numbers), but did for the states.&nbsp; For Cali as a whole it got more expensive. For Ill as a whole it didn't.&nbsp; Not sure about LA and Cook.For 20% vs. 80% of anything,&nbsp; it feels kind of odd to me to take the 20% as the baseline and blaming the other 80% for making everything not look that bad.&nbsp; Or even taking 20% vs. 25% and acting like the other 55% isn't there and that the 20% is the baseline.&nbsp; I mean, unless we're only supposed to be focusing on someone living in the 20% ;-)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 9351212, member: 6701124"] I put in LA County and Cook County in separately in addition to including all of Illinois and all of California for housing, didn't I? That California is more expensive than somewhere doesn't mean something has become less affordable there, does it? Wouldn't that be if income didn't also go up enough to keep up. I give the percent changes in housing price in Cook county and LA. I didn't find the change in income for the counties (happy to be given sources numbers), but did for the states. For Cali as a whole it got more expensive. For Ill as a whole it didn't. Not sure about LA and Cook. For 20% vs. 80% of anything, it feels kind of odd to me to take the 20% as the baseline and blaming the other 80% for making everything not look that bad. Or even taking 20% vs. 25% and acting like the other 55% isn't there and that the 20% is the baseline. I mean, unless we're only supposed to be focusing on someone living in the 20% ;-) [/QUOTE]

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