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I live in Palo Alto and love zillowing random houses on my walk to Starbucks. Record for most expensive town house on a normal residential street is $19m. It’s insane.

Zillow and Redfin and trulia estimated values are clickbait. Only look at recent sale prices and comp sales.

https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Mateo,CA/

I think that's fair but the nonetheless the only houses on here in San Mateo for under 600k are about 600sq ft. Even 1200sqft homes are 1M+ Where do you think married mid-level engineers are going to live?

For 500k in Austin you can choose between brand new 1300 sqft homes or older 2500 sqft homes.

You have to go well east of San Jose in order to find what I would call a “normal” city in the Bay Area.