Here is a nice little bread and butter house in Foster City, California, located about 10 miles south of the San Francisco Airport. It lists for $995,000. It has 1800 square feet.
Gads! That's not a heck of a lot bigger than my garage.
South of Houston in the NASA/Clear Lake area you could purchase something like this on the water, have almost 6,000 sq. ft. and keep $100K+ in your pocket.
That is one damn ugly house. Only in Texas could such an atrocity be built, or perhaps by Iranians in Los Angeles. Nice yard though. LOL.