I lived in a home no where near that expensive in DFW and commuted 45-60 mins each way when my kids were young. Plenty of places you can work in tech and not own a million dollar house. Even still so today.
Actually, I moved out of DFW because of my 60 minute each way commute and the average salary of an engineer there. This was some time ago, so things may have changed, but I wouldn't describe DFW (especially in it's current expansive state) as much different given the labor market to real estate value ratio.