Just so you know, there are plenty of places around the US with better public school districts than in the hyper-expensive metros where you can get a very decen

Just so you know, there are plenty of places around the US with better public school districts than in the hyper-expensive metros where you can get a very decent house for <$350k. My wife & I spent <$200k on a house in NC roughly equivalent to the $1.4m house we bought in the Bay Area, and the NC public schools in our area were FAR superior.