While real estate investing aims to achieve financial freedom, this is only possible if you invest where rents outpace inflation and there is significant, sustained population growth.

Might be a way to get some cash quicker or maybe get a buyer for the land quicker if you can show them they could pull 1k an acre by having someone come clear cut the parcel after they buy it.The local population seems very limiting too.

Great macroeconomics with growing population and job market.

I would never buy in places that has a population that is shirking.  

If that's the case, check out some of the economic data about what cities have strong job and population growth.

Note the below bill was proposed, establishing a 5-year moratorium on condo conversions in high population/population density counties (basically Hudson County only).

Places like Leander, Cedar Park, and Georgetown are seeing incredible infrastructure improvements and population spikes.

Also I am thinking now that these are small rural counties with population in the entire county probably no more than 50k or so.. at least with most of those folks living in the city of Oroville which is right on the border with British Columbia In my flying days I would go into Oroville to get through US customs compared to going into one of the airports Airports north of Seattle .

In cities with static or declining populations, the existing housing supply typically meets housing demand.

As far as office I remain intrigued by it, also at least in our area condos have been brutally hit and I think offer a “deal” without quite the downsides to office, I tend to think office/retail in suburban and even pandemic boom markets (I’ve started investing on the eastern shore of Md and have considered some office deals there) offers the best risk/reward of office because you have a population boom coupled with ultimately still a low supply of office space, where as urban areas have lost population and have a huge glut of supply, I think the ultimate fate of a lot of urban office trends towards zero/land value.