RonB wrote:

I guess that is hard not to do if you live too far east or west. I am
amazed, when we watch the real estate shows on HGTV. They are selling
an older California or Massachusetts home and I'm thinking "that's a
$170,000 home. Then they show the $750,000 price. We are still
selling new $300,000 homes in the plains states for around $300,000,
not $1.5M.

Some years ago a Cambridge MA resident was going to retire and move to
Alabama. He put his house on the market and called a realtor in his soon to
be new home town to set up appointments. When she heard the price range he
was looking for, she replied "I don't think we have anything in that range".
He ended up with a huge house on few acres on a river (dock and boat
included) with fancy gardens and still put a few hundred thousand $ in the
bank.