SF Bay Area Housing Reality: Loooong Commute or Smaaallll Home....Unless You is Rich!

Regular folk ain't gotta prayer to stay near San Jose/SF. SF Chronicle reports:

Squeezed by astronomical home prices and rents that are almost as unaffordable, a growing number of Bay Area residents are pulling up stakes and trading long commutes for cheaper housing.

They're heading to places like Tracy, Mountain House, Patterson, Hollister and Los Banos. Some are buying bigger homes and others are renting for much less, hoping to put money aside for a down payment of their own one day, in a replay of the eastward migration during the dot-com boom.