Right now Costa Rica is  2 hours ahead of us, once California reverts to Daylight Savings Time this weekend, they are 1 hour ahead of us, either way, I can get up early, walk 60 seconds to a surfing beah, get a good 1 to 2 hours of surf in, have breakfast, and still be able to service my clients over the phone when they get in to their offices  between 7am and 9am CA time.I've been an outside sales person in the maintenance and operations business the past 18 years, a recession proof business, and I've structured my business so 90% of my income comes by phone, email or ordering directly online.My game plan will be to spend long weekends there, and maybe use Costa Rica as a jumping off point to explore the rest of Central and South America. 

So for example I'm very conservative and don't want any debt on them because I feel this hardens them in case of a severe recession.

A total of 5.64 million homes were sold in 2020, up 5.6% from 2019 and the most since before the Great Recession, according to Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.

We bought 4 older mobile homes to put on 4 lots we owned during the previous recession.

Tesla rescued that GM/Toyota plant after the great recession and brought "green" high paying manufacturing jobs to the area.

Best bet is to get creative or look in tertiary markets (which are hit the hardest in recessions).Hope this helps a bit.

When you consider interest rates being at zero for years, amount of credit in the system, subprime borrowers, fannie and freddie buying 1% down loans again, the US most likely headed for recession and the fed increasing rates into a recession, the safe and secure US looks far more like the "wild west" then Medellin etc., where interest rates are 12% for a mortgage and require 30%+ down and the majority of real estate is paid for in cash.    

It also historically has been quite recession resistant. 

I could also support it as a pure cost if worst case scenario there's another covid shutdown or we head for an apocalyptic great recession.

We are in a Recession and the real part of it will START after the Fed stops raising Interest Rates in 2023.