Preferably stay for one year and find another house.

There are a lot of quirks and oddities in Louisiana law where the current tenant can assert that they have an implied agreement that they can pay late, stay X months without a lease, do whatever action, etc, based on what the current landlord/owner has allowed and told them in the past.

The original six month tenant I had extended the lease 9 times and stayed a total of 5 years, paying me about $15k over market rent annually.  

Stay there one night and test it yourself.

I have a couple of friends who have several rental units in Gettysburg and said the rents are good and he has many professionals who stay for a good amount of time and pay on time.  

You can either bridge that gap by piling up more money or living with less comfort. 

With that being said, if you're comfortable with a long term hold, San Diego and especially coastal, will always be attractive imo. 

I was 2 days away from that happening when the stay at home orders came down.

Depending on comfort and cash, it might be a viable option as you can build equity and then sell without having capital gains, assuming it's your primary residence and you've lived there for 2 years.

Your team can stay local.