“and cant believe that that is a $2.1 million dollar home.”
I sold a well kept house for $128000 in south Alabama. Some people from San Francisco made an offer (it fell through). Their address was on the offer. I looked it up. Their house was about the same square footage as mine. The value of their house on Zillow was $1.1 million. That’s why, to me, trying to average house prices, income, or anything else in this country is meaningless.
When I lived in California decades ago I was broke—paycheck to paycheck.
After I moved out of the state I became prosperous.
Life is easy when you know the rules.