Has anyone else paid attention to Housing prices? Wow

My wife and I swapped rent for a mortgage as fast as we could after we got married. VA loan is what got me through the door. We bought the most rundown townhouse in our neighborhood at $390k back in 2014 when I was 27. I’ve renovated the whole thing by myself for cost of materials. Between equity, the market, and what I put into it, I’m sitting on a gold mine (for now......). Only problem is, I can’t sell, because I’d just have to turn around and buy high too! My dream house in the “country” around here starts at about $1.2m so I guess I’m fucked either way. I hate northern Virginia.