You should have said, “Dear, I can live in a plane, but I can’t fly a house.”
Turned out that her instincts were superior to mine. The year after we built our McMansion, a new bridge was built connecting the south metro to Bloomington over the Minnesota River.
Prior Lake moved from being a 5th or 6th tier suburb to being a 2nd tier (for Bloomington) suburb with lakefront. That bridge did wonders for property values. We took our Yankee money and headed south in 2001.