You'd be hard pressed to find an old small house right along the 280 freeway in Hillsborough for less than $2.5M. I would think $6M would be the median price for any house there. We're talking the Bay Area where a 1 bedroom apartment can easily top $1M. A person has a hard time even grasping it unless they've lived there or a handful of other super high cost areas. To put it another way, I was excited when I moved to Hawaii from the town next door to Hillsborough because houses were so much more affordable and I could actually afford to buy one.