You need to make $87,536 to buy a home in NYC; San Francisco? $142,448

From here, there's this:

This data comes from a mortgage research website (HSH.com) and is pretty much what you'd expect: the Northeast Corridor demands a relatively large salary (minus Philly, maybe); Florida is comparatively inexpensive (I thought Miami would be over $60,000 myself); the Rust Belt has insane value; San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles…