Best places to start your real estate portfolio in the US

[Joseph Koenig]

My wife and I are vagabonds (currently living in New Orleans) and have saved up around $50K (and rising) to being investing in real estate with the focus on finding a 2-4 family in an up and coming market to house hack, we would like to buy a few more over the coming years and we are also interested in doing flips to help finance more purchases as we go to build lasting passive income and wealth. We have a variety of jobs we work that are either remote or require us to travel to them so we are open to any market that is within two hour drive of a major airport (so 75% of the country), but where!?! We are asking the Bigger Pockets community to help us pick a location to move to and start investing, if you could move anywhere to start buying property TODAY or VERY SOON where would you go? Why? 

Thank you in advance everyone!