If you are making $200k in Texas, you can afford to buy a 3,500 sq.ft. house with a pool on a half-acre+ lot with AC and a 2-car garage for, say, $400k, maybe l

If you are making $200k in Texas, you can afford to buy a 3,500 sq.ft. house with a pool on a half-acre+ lot with AC and a 2-car garage for, say, $400k, maybe less. In CA, you would pay well over $2MM for that same house anywhere within an hour’s drive in rush hour from either SF or Silicon Valley. Anywhere north of Sunnyvale, that house will run you a minimum of $3 million.