It looks very contemporary.

I graduated from the University of New Mexico many years ago (back in 1999), and although I have not lived in Albuquerque since, I still maintain a sense of New Mexico being a second "home" all this time, due both to my geographic knowledge of the region and an appreciation and love of the culture and landscape.   

What's driving up the prices in Flushing is as much cultural as it is the dense population.

I have a desire to support uplifting/encouraging art in Houston, for the art (music, performing arts, visual arts) is the heartbeat of the culture of a city, help propel the local church I am a part of to new levels of influence and ability to help (they have a large prison and drug addict ministry), and to provide future employment/contract work that can help establish good character and personal development in said employees.Real Estate/Business has the potential to impact on a city level what would be nearly impossible to do in the position of a W2 salary, even at higher levels in the corporate ladder IMO.This impact potential gets me absolutely jazzed.And so since November I have devoured books, burned through podcasts, employed my excel and access skillz, joined a local REI club, met up with local investors, read numerous BP threads/blogs, and now begun the actual deployment of action steps.The beginning of March has marked the real start of a new endeavor along side my engineering day job... heading down the Wholesaling route, seeing as deals are the must-have corner stone for this entire business. 

It's being passed down from my friend's father to him, and with it a change of culture and a bit of innovation to their valuation tactics.As of right now they are doing most of their cash flow analysis by hand, and digging through online data sets to find out information like traffic flow and average lease prices in a given area.

My wife is actually in Human Resources at CCBCC - they are a great organization with an excellent company culture!

The greatest cultural weakness of this city, in my view, is that the residents refuse to change and let go and embrace new things.

I like Grand Rapids: above average population growth, diversified and modernized economy and cultural depth in art and craft brewery scene which I think makes it desirable.

Rural Washington might be a bit different culturally than Texas!

Some banks will not like it that you changed professions and countries.If you keep searching you might be able to find someone who will do owner financing.Let me know if there is anything I can help you with.The move back and reverse culture shock are difficult.