I’ll put Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, and the Claremont colleges up against those schools any day of the week. Pretty sure Massachusetts would throw Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, UMASS and Babson up against the Texas Schools too. You need me to start listing the Ivy’s in each NE state for ya?
Look you have cheap housing that is a function of supply and demand...shouldn’t the cost of housing go up if Texas was being “flooded” by out of staters? Oh that’s right you just keep pushing out to shitholes like Katy and The Woodlands and build nondescript tract housing developments that aren’t worth shit 15 years later since that ‘damn new development down the road just built up ever bigger and uglier and shinier houses’ so now only first time home buyers with little money want to buy your beat up used home. In California I bought my first house for $500k ten years later sold it for $1.5M. Bought a new house for $2M and 8 years later it’s worth $3.3M. Even during these crazy times. Oh also have two four unit apartments where the the rent on each unit is $4k a month which pays all the mortgage, taxes, insurance, maintenance and management fees and still drops $12K a month in profit all while someone else is paying it off the the dirt and the structure keeps appreciating.
Sure when land is cheap and there is a lot of it , it’s hard to turn those types of profits in dumbass Texas.