<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hibikir</author><text>The US has very localized housing problems. Many tech giants are realizing that they have to either diversify their locations or enter into a housing spiral, as there just aren&amp;#x27;t enough houses for how many people they&amp;#x27;d like to hire.&lt;p&gt;Once you step out of a small number of markets, the price problem goes away. I live in a well sized metro in the midwest, and I&amp;#x27;ve worked, from here, for companies you&amp;#x27;ve heard about. 4 bedrooms in my street, sitting on half an acre and a decent school district, are $250k. A 1 bedroom apartment would be under a thousand a month to rent, and that&amp;#x27;s a modern building with good appliances, a gym, a pool and gigabit internet. A single person in tech, right out of school, can easily save enough to get a mortgage in their first year working.&lt;p&gt;So yes, your situation is very real, but if there was less pressure to be in Seattle, NY or SF, the housing problems would melt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>I mean FWIW I’m American and your explanation sounds very foreign to me. I’m a millennial though, so owning a house at all is quite obstacle. Scrounging up a down payment when even a 2 bedroom apartment is $1-$1.5 million is not the easiest task. Renting an extra 2 bedrooms to have lying around in case we suddenly need 2 offices would also cost an extra couple thousand dollars a month. My wife and I are both working from home from a 1 bedroom apartment currently.</text></item><item><author>alistairSH</author><text>Can Japanese residents comment on how this works WRT office space in the home?  Do people typically have space in their homes to have a proper home office setup?&lt;p&gt;My wife and I are both WFH right now, and we had to buy a second desk and chair and repurpose what was previously our 2nd bedroom.  The 3rd bedroom has always been a home office.  If we lived in a downtown apartment, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what we&amp;#x27;d do, as we&amp;#x27;re both in management and spend the majority of the day teleconferencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53303364</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jdhn</author><text>&amp;gt;Scrounging up a down payment when even a 2 bedroom apartment is $1-$1.5 million is not the easiest task.&lt;p&gt;This is why I don&amp;#x27;t live in the Bay Area, and have no plans to. I was casually surfing Trulia, and found new construction in my area starting at $170k for a 3 bed&amp;#x2F;2 bathroom. The idea of paying that much for an apartment(!) is simply foreign to me.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>I mean FWIW I’m American and your explanation sounds very foreign to me. I’m a millennial though, so owning a house at all is quite obstacle. Scrounging up a down payment when even a 2 bedroom apartment is $1-$1.5 million is not the easiest task. Renting an extra 2 bedrooms to have lying around in case we suddenly need 2 offices would also cost an extra couple thousand dollars a month. My wife and I are both working from home from a 1 bedroom apartment currently.</text></item><item><author>alistairSH</author><text>Can Japanese residents comment on how this works WRT office space in the home?  Do people typically have space in their homes to have a proper home office setup?&lt;p&gt;My wife and I are both WFH right now, and we had to buy a second desk and chair and repurpose what was previously our 2nd bedroom.  The 3rd bedroom has always been a home office.  If we lived in a downtown apartment, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what we&amp;#x27;d do, as we&amp;#x27;re both in management and spend the majority of the day teleconferencing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53303364</url></story>