>>127271460
According to elmo the hater finn, this is the best sub-500$ strat in terms of build and setup quality you can get, you may need to swap pups at some point though:
https://www.amazon.com/EART-Electric-Solid-Body-Handed-Rosewood-Fingerboard-Sunburst/dp/B08K36777Z

Outside of that, cheap fenders suck and I wouldn't go for used, but if you ever see a used PRS SE silver sky I can reccomend it wholeheartedly, that thing and it's pickups fucking fuck, hard.