But to be frank, CA's trajectory is impossible to replicate due the prevalent remote working environment for high paying jobs, and as more people start to think about not just professions, but also life styles.Be careful with 'historical' data.

San Bruno is good, there're few that's being targeted as prime area for flipper (buy 800k sell 1.4m).Around Berkeley is good too especially near the hill.Please do note when asset price is 1 mil, the trajectory of asset appreciation is different than the one below 1 mil.So these area when we said "Berkeley", has large area ranges, usually the higher elevation home is always priced way higher than the downtown.

Most of the time there's a trajectory that starts out (hopefully when you're young) with high leverage and great returns, low cash flow, and evolves into low leverage, lousy returns but great cash flow as you get older.

On the other hand, Sacramento is on the upward trajectory in terms of population and economic growth.

I'm not sure where I'm going, but I sure like the trajectory!

Typically those that come to me have tens of millions to hundreds of millions so you see their investing trajectory over many decades of time.

It sounds like you're on the right trajectory for success! 

Competition is high, but in reality, we're on a trajectory to look almost identical to Denver and Austin...i.e. everything in this city is sitting at 50% of value considering a 20-year hold = wealth.

If you trust yourself more than the stock market, and like the control over your own finances and wealth trajectory, then this is a great strategy.

Your gut is telling you that purchasing something that produces virtually no yield is a bad choice even though others are telling you it's the best of the worst and the current trajectory certainly will continue in the future.