Whether to invest in real estate in the high-cost Bay Area or channel your funds into achieving Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) can be daunting. Each option has its unique benefits and challenges. For instance, a Reddit user asked the community if they should buy a house in the San Francisco Bay Area, or focus on FIRE. Buy Home Or FIRERepresentational image of a Reddit user’s FIRE confusion | Image generation using Dall-E Here’s a gist of their question: the user and their wife’s earnings total to $1.35 million a year and they have two kids aged 13 and 9. They don’t have any debt a…