now I'm happy some people involve in this topic, I don't know anything about real estate in USA, a little far for me, I haven't visited it also, difficult to get a visa, also not cheap for me to visit this country, so I put my point in southeast countries, after visiting these countries, I compared with Chinese real estate, now in china, esp some big cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou , Shenzhen etc, very expensive to invest, so when I found the market in southeast countries cheaper than in china, thats why, I began to invest one in Bangkok in 2014, after I got my condo in 2015, I bought the furniture package, I rent it out every year, I found a good profit, about 6 percent returns, another one in Pattaya for holidays, still not finished, anyway compared Thailand and Philippines, all have advantages and disadvantages, just depend on u, now the price in Bangkok is a little high, if only investing, I think Manila is better than bangkok, more return in rental!

I am based in Hong Kong and Guangzhou where the air pollution is bad.

At the age of 15 he started riding his bike from Guangzhou to Macau, roughly 150 miles to escape the Japanese occupation during WW2.  

i'm interested to see how this conversation developed and/or concluded...I'm in Guangzhou right now, and the wheels of ideas are spinning where investing here goes!