An all brick-sided, picket-fence walled 4,000 sq-ft brand new house with granite kitchen and half-acre yard in Central Texas can be had for $250,000 currently. There are green meadows, sunshine, and plenty of spring waters to go with that.
Give or take $200,000 for the weather-and-surfing tax, the same San Diego house should only add up to $450,000 for comparison. Anything above that should be outrageous. After all, you don’t want to overpay for the trickle of undiluted water from the Colorado river infused with Moab, Utah’s toxic dumpsite kool-aid watering the 4-Closure lawns.