They let you use the tools and make your own furniture in off hours, but learning the techniques and how to is a craft that as a culture only a few have kept up with.

Very strong Chinese accent. 

Instead we compete with Chinese, Russian, Australian, and European investors on a daily basis.

It is definitely a cultural belief now and, in my opinion, it makes people lazy investors.

Definitely visit, it’s a very vibrant cultural city.  

I do love your statement about only those stoopid Asians and Chinese buying at the top.

They have to pack all of their stuff up into a container, move to Netherlands, find a school for their son, find a short-term rental, start a new job in a new country and culture, find a job for his wife, find and buy a new house in a land they have no idea where they would want to live, and generally figure things out in the next month or two. 

Tempe has ASU, downtown has a lot of culture and cool historic homes, Chandler is expanding employment n the tech sector ... feel free to shoot me a PM and we can discuss specifics! 

And our current culture of information overload, and consumers wanting absolutely what they want, when they want.....is making transactions much more difficult, and reinforcing the current system.

However, real estate overseas is actually very different from the US, with maybe the exception of Canada (which still has significant differences).Among other things, the legal and banking systems are oftentimes very different, as is the local investing culture (or lack thereof).As mentioned by @Joe Splitrock, there is an international forum here but there’s a lot of wrong information there, which I’ve been trying to correct whenever I encounter it.After almost 500 replies to posts related to international investing, many members have contacted me to either compliment me on the quality of my content and to ask me for further help.