California is the #5 economy by GDP growth in the world behind US, China, Japan and Germany.

Why don't you read up about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, when government ears were everywhere and children reported on their parents? 

@Justin GermanIs the house in the hood?

Here in Germany where am at currently with COVID the rental market was limited with no one PCSing and the only company with a good amount of rentals is a company blacklisted and guess what they will still have a ton after.

I plan on buying a multi-tenant apartment building in Berlin, Germany.

LOLCurrently living in Germany and we get (about once a quarter) a 3-page letter encouraging us to play the lottery.

That is less per capita than France, Germany, UK or Sweden.   

As a fellow "car nut" i'd like to tell you one thing - In 2016 i sold my racecar in germany (that i worked incredibly hard for (and on) to be able to own in the first place - Im talking about working almost every not sleeping minute of the day, maybe ill make a post to tell this background some day) It was one of the hardest decisions i made in my adult life, but three years later i know it was the best financial decision i could have made.

PPI in Germany right now is reaching an all-time high.

Right now we have around 30k cash we could use to get started on something, and then we will take advantage of the VA loan when we move back stateside (currently in Germany).