For instance, as a child and family therapist you make a healthy salary.

You could purchase a condo with a fantastic HOA Board and healthy budget today and within a year or two a new Board is elected and things spiral down hill.

While the sale side of the market appears healthy it makes me question the long term trends and where we are in the cycle. 

Virtually the only way this could affect someone’s health is if you stripped it from the home, dumped it in a confined space, jumped on top of it and started pulverizing it with a sledge hammer for hours on end.

Is this an area with plenty of diversity and healthy/growing small businesses, or is there ONE major employer that basically controls the destiny of the community?

Zaki,You might take a look at Cincinnati for a healthy return on investment.

I have a plan, and less fear than is probably healthy to carry it out.

I like it distressed property at a healthy discount.  

I hope to be a healthy and hip 65 year old, but why would I take that risk of delaying the enjoyment of life until I may possibly be too old to enjoy all it has to offer?

We have relatively easy financing, more robust property rights than other countries, pockets with amenable landlord-tenant laws, and a healthy market to buy or sell into.