The difference in labor costs and regulations between Texas and California must be enormous; hundreds of thousands, perhaps. Even if you already owned the land, you *still* couldn’t build a house like that for anywhere near that price in California – even in the less expensive inland areas. For example, let’s say the land value of that house in TX is low – 80K – that means the house itself has a market value of 400K. You could not have a contractor build that house anywhere in California for anywhere near 400K. Are labor costs and regulations adding hundreds of thousand to the prices all across Calif? Anyone have a breakdown of these costs?