We won't hand you a price prediction for either market, because nobody can honestly make one. What we can compare is structure, since structure shapes how each market behaves. San Diego we know well. It behaves a lot like Orange County: built out near the coast with real geographic constraints, so coastal supply is tight and pricey while inland it opens up and gets more affordable. Constrained markets add little new supply, which supports prices in strong times and can also make them more volatile, since there is little new building to absorb a surge in demand. Fort Worth and the wider Dallas area is a different animal, and one we know less intimately, so hold our read on it loosely. Its defining feature is room to build. When a metro can add homes on its outskirts relatively easily, that new supply acts as a pressure valve: harder for prices to spike violently, and harder for them to crash hard, because construction can flex with demand. The useful takeaway is a lens, not a forecast. Watch each market's own inventory, local job growth, and how much new construction it can realistically add. A constrained coastal market and a build-anywhere metro can face the same national rate environment and still move very differently.