This is my reality. I've lived here since right after the real estate crash and have seen house prices triple in a decade. I don't work in tech, and I don't have the flexibility to move because of family commitments. My rent keeps going up and I've watched my dreams of home ownership evaporate before my eyes.

I can't say for sure whether this boom has been good or bad on the whole, but I can say there are lots of people like myself who are excluded and are left wondering where we went wrong or what we could have done differently.