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Not exactly... and it's most definitely not an apples-to-apples comparison.

That $200k house in Austin is in a suburb. All of those nice walks to the grocery store? Gone. All of those nice close local eateries? Gone.

You can find that in Austin, but the price jumps up pretty significantly.

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Isn't a $1M silicon valley house also in suburbia?

Depends on what you mean by suburbia. Most of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc are what I'd think of as "dense suburban". It's generally walkable to restaurants & shopping.

It'll cost you more than $200k, but dense suburban housing is still more affordable in Austin than it is in the Bay Area.

Look in Rosedale. You can still get a good house for under $500K.

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