/biz/ - Business & Finance

My girl and I are sciency fucks making $230k/yr gross together (~$150k/yr net cash in the bank). We don't spend a lot of money and currently live in a shitty one bedroom. We have saved up ~$230k cash in the bank (inb4 retards for not investing before, i know).

Anyway, we've been studying the housing market in our area for like 3 years and recently decided to actually actively look. After much pickiness we found a $600k house that is perfect for us but we may want to put in a pool (~$50k). This is by far the biggest purchase of our lives and we are both nervous as fuck.

We totally googled/stalked the neighbors (pretty much the exact same property) and they are like insanely talented people. Guy is a PhD engineer from MIT working in oil and gas and the wife is a PhD in Biology(?) from Princeton with a MBA from Stanford, don't know what she does though. Also they both seem to be about 10 to 15 years older than us.

So my question is: are we in way over our heads? Is this level of housing really for people with a lot more money?