Just Google Myrtle beach crime statistics and they jump off the screen as "FBI says Myrtle Beach third most dangerous city in America".

I used to teach statistics to MBA students, and I would tell them that five opinions is way too small of a sample size to get anything valuable out of it, so let's make it six opinions: People have been telling me that it was a bad time to get into real estate since I started buying up duplexes in 2013, and that I should wait until the market cooled down before buying.

I am in Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay / Silicon Valley area and the market is still a seller's market with little inventory compared to past statistics. 

Also consider Americans are often big people (statistics say well over 60% are obese or overweight), and a queen is just unbearably cramped if you're bigger than the ~1940's average adult when Queen and King size became available.  

Locally we are seeing tremendous appreciation at literal record rates - a statistical fact not a pontificated statement - and yet wage growth for the middle class isn’t growing at that same rate, not even close.

. :)@Russell Brazil That's a great statistic! 

@Truman Anderson there are plenty of places online that have crime rate statistics, and I think there might even be something on local police departments pages in some places?

This is a fact that can be seen in the growing racial diversity of California, it statistically being the most racially diverse state in the country. 

I don't have any real estate experience, although I do have a decent amount of book knowledge on the topic.In my day job, I help companies improve profitability by using artificial intelligence, natural-language processing, and statistical models to sift through big data (yes, ALL the buzz words).

@Steven ScottThose are some impressive / encouraging statistics!