Last weekend's thread about buying the $177,000 house has some of us wondering how you folks out there are buying all this expensive real estate. Given the average person works about 2080 hours a year it would seem to me that the average working person wouldn't make but around 20K. Now I don't expect anybody to respond with what they do and what they make because we would all lie. Half of us would overstate it and half of us would understate it. So just answer the poll honestly.