Just imagine if you live near Austin, Texas. Every year a new article comes out... Best place to live Austin... Then a shit ton of people move here to an area that the roads are already jammed. Solution? Build more toll roads.
I feel a little lucky though after reading the op. I'm in a suburb of Austin and bought a small but nice 3 bedroom/2 bath house a few years back with monthly payments at about 1,200. I was in apt before that but the rates kept creeping up each resigning and got to the point where I was like shit might as well buy a house.