Originally Posted by NewGuy01

Hope I haven’t offended you. But you’re really proving my point. There are two kinds of pilots at AS. Pre and post housing crisis. You pretty much solidly landed in the pre category with your latest post. But you seem like you’re being genuinely sincere so I’ll try and do the same.

You need to understand that when you were an FO 130$ an hour was a lot of money. But now it’s not. I know it sounds insane and as someone who grew up on the West Coast it sounds crazy to me as well.

Unless I move to Tacoma/Olympia or Bellingham I’m not going to be considered financially qualified by a lending institution to purchase a home as a single income, single person.

What we really need is a base in an affordable location. Since I’m not alone in finding housing in our 4 bases incredibly expensive I would likely be too junior to get in depending on the size of the base.

Until then I’m planning on a 8-10 year upgrade. Since that’s about what the math says at the 2-3% growth plan. Which is fine. But unless there is a dramatic change in housing costs that don’t get 200 FOs furloughed. I’ll likely be renting for life. Since I’m not big on driving in heavy traffic for 1-2 hrs at the start and end of nearly all of our trips.


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