$400,000 will buy you a lot of house in Dallas/Fort Worth, much less a million. Very nice houses can be bought for much less than that. Utilities are pretty reasonable. Every kind of restaurant, shopping and entertainment that you could imagine.
Only thing is the Property Taxes can be a bear.
Decent, quiet, country neiborhood.
You can still buy a decent house - nothing fancy - in the Seattle area (suburbs) for $550,000-700,000, and you don’t need to earn $350,000 to do that. But I’m not trying to minimize how expensive it’s gotten.