>Those may be expensive houses in the first image, but I guarantee cost per square foot is an order of magnitude cheaper.
I guarantee they're not. Portland average house price is $500k [0]. Your example of Katy, TX is $365k [1]. Not even close to an order of magnitude.
>If waves of folks want the first image, more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.
If waves of folks want this image [2], more power to them. I'm not gonna stop them. But I also don't want to pay for it.
[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/30772/OR/Portland/housing-market
[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/9764/TX/Katy/housing-market
[2] https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/portla... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...