When we moved here prices were *much* lower. California was SO expensive -- our second house was 1100 sq.ft. on flat 1/2 acre right on the highway through the valley, and about $100k when sold in 1983.
For that money here we bought... oh gosh, I forget the footage -- 3000+ sq.ft. "rambler" (means single-level house, usually "ranch-style") on a private half-acre adjacent to greenbelt, close in (just a few miles from Seattle city line), peek-a-boo view of Lake Washington from the odd second-story room on the back wing. I could practice my pipes in the downstairs family room in that wing and not be heard in the rest of the house. Oh -- and virtuallbrand-new: it was a repo and the previous owners had trashed the place, it was taken down to studs an rebuilt. Took a lot of work to get rid of the blackberries and put in a yard.
It was a funny house. If you didn't pay attention on entering, it could be an effort to find the front door.
Had to sell it during a financial downturn. When we bought this house that one was on the market, but just a bit out of our reach, sadly. OTOH, traffic over there is absolutely terrible now.
We had friends in Tulsa - Pat’s godparents - who bought a house that had to be totally redone like that. And not a single room had right-angle corners! Tremendous views of a fancy golf course, though.
The front door opened into a hall with a big natural-stone scenic wall (I guess), and then you had to go up stairs to get anywhere. It was dreadful trying to park there in a big van! I think we hit a gate at least once.
They had 5,000 ft., iirc. I used to go clean there sometimes, and then go back to my little house in the ‘burbs, where things were square, in relief.