$200,000 is expensive for a house?
In most of the country it was, ten years ago. You can expect the tax free gain of $250,000 per individual to go away quickly; the RATS targeted that the day it was passed.
After all, that only benefits the "rich"! That half million untaxed gives you assets that they don't want you to have. Well off folks don't NEED Democrats! They'll try to make you need them.