OT in every city of this country you can buy a fine place for 500K
while i aqree $1M is a lot of money for most folks, $500k will not buy a "fine" place in many cities in this country. $500k in Boston/Cambridge and San Francisco/bay area will get you a quite modest home by standards in most of the US.
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