What a home looks like depends heavily on a town’s character in addition to its building history, market pressures, legal guidelines, and demography. These differences mean that the house your money could buy in your hometown might not look anything like the one you’d get if you moved across the country, or even to the city next door.
Zillow crunched sales data and prepared charts and maps showing where $1 million can get you a very large mansion and where you’ll be sharing a wall with a millionaire neighbor in a small condo.