The Stock market small and volatile and they cannot take the money out of China.  

Given the vague post, it's really hard to say.While I do work Riverside County and currently belong to the Estate Planning Counsel, I don't go out of my way to do business in the Palm Springs area because of the high price volatility during low economic times.

Generally speaking, there is a Risk vs Reward system in investing, where the more volatile an investment, the larger the rewards can be. 

If the home is stripped to the studs, and I personally do the work, wearing a P99 full face respirator along with full body disposable suit... the place is aired out, I give the chemicals time/heat to volatilize...

In periods of high volatility, attempt to sit on your hands and pray your manager doesn't ask you to relocate!

Safe Haven - Japan is the second largest real estate investment market in the world, just after the U.S. and considered a safe haven from market volatility. 4.

I think RE prices on the West Coast are much more volatile than what we see in the Midwest.  

I was booted out of the International Physicist's Consortium because I theorized that the quantum wave length of cobalt 7 added to the instability of the linear mass of Wall Street's hyper volatility leading to the melt down in 2008.

I think long term we are way less volatile than some California markets (as seen in the last downturn) so there is some sense of security holding through whatever is to come - in my opinion.     

Less volatility.