For the cost of a normal middle-class home in Palo Alto [1], I could buy an entire public airport with a paved runway and home on almost 300 acres in the (not Texas) town I lived in as a child [2].

1: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/529-Driscoll-Pl-Palo-Alto...

2: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/37-Colonel-Lindbergh-Ln-M...