I spent a long number of years as a teacher, working very hard yet living in genteel poverty.

B class is where nurses and teachers and white collar people live.

I am a school teacher at a private Catholic high school here so not rich, lol.

Real life is the best teacher.

I've been devouring as much REI related content as possible while working as a teacher over the last two or three months.

If you are a retired cop, teacher or PGE employee you are getting the same pension either way and it goes much farther in Boise or SLC. 

Make sure you let your goals known to the ppl you interact with like your friends, family, teachers and other school employees I guarantee one of them successfully invests or knows someone that successfully invests in real estate and you can work on building a relationship from there. 

We're teachers, so we aren't ballin' out of control like some of the folks on this site, but we've found a good area and a realtor who will video a walk thru in the middle of the night...lol.

I am reminded of the old adage about teachers (another noble profession!)

For example- one of my clients is a teacher-- barely making $50k a year.