Seattle is  becoming the hub of so many areas of Technology - Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Drones to name a few.

Its generally the hub of my small operation, i definitely recommend it for someone like you with only 4 doors.

Porn.

South Avenue is a big corporate hub and they keep building more buildings to take jobs away from Manhattan and keep people right here on SI. 

When you account for current housing such as Sol y Luna, the HUB, the District on 5th, the Cadence, INDI, Campus Crossings, and a plethora of others you are looking at a large and growing supply.

Amazon is just dominating our real estate headlines here in DFW.Amazon eyeing another big shipping hub south of Dallas

We are now the Central Florida Real Estate Investment Hub.....but it's all people who have met or found the meetup on BP that are involved. 

@Nick Scullin decent schools, maybe even a little downtown hub and certainly a high owner occupancy rate will mean its a very desireable and hard to afford town for renters.

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Portland is becoming a bigger tourism hub (Japan even has a Portland mascot) so short term rentals are hot.