There's a decent chance that I would. I currently rent a basement, and while it's a fine place to live, I wouldn't mind owning my own place if I could just straight up buy a place without having to take out a mortgage. Plus I like collecting stuff, and while I currently have room for all of my stuff, I'm eventually going to run into space issues.
As for how much I'd spend, that's hard to say. Looking at house prices in my area right now, I'd probably try to stay under $400,000 as that already gives me plenty of decent options. That's Canadian dollars though, so assuming the $1 million refers to USD, that's less than a third of it that I'd be spending on a house. But even if the $1 million is CAD, it's at least still less than half.