Canada

We are a dual income family, also making well over the average income for our area, and we live like kings. Bought a 4bd house, late 90s build, with an oversized double garage, finished basement yadda yadda yadda for just over $400k a few years ago. Markets starting to go bonkers around us though, because we literally have busses going through our neighbourhoods packed with boomer Ontarians that are trying to infect our housing market with their bullshit.

10 years ago I realized Ontario was a bust. I wasn't making what it would take to buy a house, my wife was making minimum wage, living in our parents basements. Everyone was like oh you can't go anywhere, family, what about your friends, etc. On a lark I got a job in Calgary, we drove for 3 days, and by the end of the month my wife also had a job, and we didn't double our household income, we pretty much tripled it. In one month. It's since grown quite a lot more, I think alone I now make about 4x what my Ontario salary would have grown to in their sad little attempt to keep me there, and my wife has more than doubled her initial earnings. Which is ironic, because we also live like kings out here, zero debt other than our mortgage, because our overhead is low, taxes are low, the cost of living out here is really good. The politics are a bit weird, but you just kind of smile and nod. To be fair they are pretty goofy in Ontario too. Fuck Ontario, seriously. That place is fucking broken. I mean it's literally this simple, just find something awesome and move. You have every excuse in the book not to, but there's a whole world out there, trust me.