In keeping with the topic of home affordability and millennial migration in the unaffordable Bay Area, this article speaks directly to the notion of why you need to "know your neighborhood," rather than basing your info off calculations (think back to stats analysis and data interpretation folks) and cross state speculators.

@Zeak HillI think I agree that the program does seem to oversell the notion that you can quit your regular job and retire in only a few years.

I also discard the notion that man is inherently evil and has an "urge" to kill his fellow man.

This seems to be the notion of retirement held by the population at large.

In our rapidly diversifying nation, where we are all becoming minorities, the idea that any given group has an inalienable claim on a particular political seat, appointment or office based on demographics has officially outlived its usefulness.Romantic notions of ethnic self-determination and multiculturalism may have once served to dismantle empires and garner attention for forgotten minorities.

On top of that you will find the PDX metro area one of the 10 ten toughest markets in the country to find wholesale deals .. if your long term buy and hold and will pay going rate no problem. but if you think you can learn some secret sauce to compete against the locals and get great deals .. then I will dissuade you of that notion.

.- I have to disagree with the notion of not investing OOS.

The grandmaster, @Scott Trench, hits home on this notion in his book "Set for Life" (which transformed my worldview).

Even more so when there is money involved with the notion that you CAN get rich quick!

I decided to go with the notion of Socrates when he said, "I know that I know nothing"....or something like that.