<prompt> Human: 24fI work as a dental hygienist 2 and 12 days a week making 33hr. 27mMy husband is on contract as a computer security analyst making 26.44hr. His contract ends April 2016. He is still in school getting really close to finishing his Bachelors in Information Security. He will finish school anytime between March 2016 - May 2016. My schooling has me currently in 48k in debt. Graduated 2 years ago. Most of it is Federal sub and usub loans in a 25 year graduated repayment plan, while the other 8,200 is a private loan standard repayment over 10 years. I have been doubling payments on this private loan to pay it off in 5 years. Currently my payments to loans are 215.37 for federal loans and 135x2 for my private loan, or 483.37month. My husband will have around 20-30k in debt from school when he finishes, since he is still in school we are not in repayment for him. All of his will be federal loans. SO- because his contract ends soon he is searching for another job. However, without having a completed degree a lot of companies have weeded his resume out of the system. He is BARELY starting to look for work. He recently had a phone interview and the job would pay roughly 74kyear. A lot of his coworkers have left my husbands current job, some without degrees, getting over 70k.We have 20k in savings currently. Currently we rent month-to-month at 1,145. We didnt sign another contract which would have made it roughly 990-1,050month because we know we will be moving and dont want to be stuck in a contract, they wouldnt work with us to get a 6 month contract and the shortest they would offer is 8 and we know for sure we will be gone way before 8 months. We want to live 45min north of where we currently are. I have to commute 30 min to work and 1 hour home traffic. Whereas my husbands current job is 5 minutes away. But that job isnt forever and theres no chance of getting a non-contract job there. Most jobs my husband has been looking for are 30-60 min north of where we currently are. Our family and most of our friends live 45-60 min north and we want to be closer to them and love the area up there. Where we want to move, if we rented, the cost to rent is exactly what we are paying now month-to-month or MORE. We both are set on moving, but on the condition that my husband gets a different job first. Long story short- if you were US, when my husband does get a job realistically around 70-80k, would it be beneficial to RENT for a year when we move 12-month contract paying roughly 1,200-1,400month and put money into savings to put towards a down payment on a house, or do our finances check out to buy a house at that time? We would be looking to buy a house anywhere between 280k-320k. We have been renting for 4 years of our marriage, have a dog, and it would be super beneficial to have a yard for her, and we are also just sick of renting apartments. But on the other hand we are willing to be patient if it can significantly impact our financial future.Thanks in advance!  <response>: Id pay my student loans way down and have a 20 down payment before considering buying a house. 