Huhan asks: " If you drive 50km out of New York and end up in the Pickering of New York, are houses there a million dollars plus?".

Answer: No, see my detailed analysis above. In that Pickering of New York, working class families have their choice of many, many houses in the 250k to 450k range.

Vancouver had that availability as well until it was decided to import billions of dollars of overseas money in the suitcases of investor immigrants.