We just bought a house in Tucson, AZ. It cost over 4 x what our house in Tennessee cost and it's nearly half the size.
BTW- Where we lived in Tennessee we had a pretty nice house for 80k. The REALLY nice homes in the prime, planned neighborhood were 200k. In the part of Tucson we live in this would buy a nice cozy home fitted with bars over every window and a good view of the real world(ie drugs, crime).