Yes, they do have food stamps and a lot of very regressive taxation which hits the poor more than the wealthy. 

Wall Street remembers and wall street played the Fed knowing the Fed would engage in QE to prevent a pandemic recession essentially transferring investment risk to taxpayers which led to very confident wall street, hedge funds, super duper very wealthy investors, very wealthy investors to engage in highly leverage investment or investment on margin with little risk of loss of principal. margin investment often results in exponential asset price inflation beyond values in a cyclical cycle. leverage investment demand creates asset price inflation. other investors invest contributing to asset price inflation beyond non margin or leveraged investment would accept. when there is a correction, the same spiral upward causes the exponential downward price devaluation. companies have to cover margin calls by selling other assets potentially flooding supply of those other assets and depressing prices of those other assets. and flooding supply of the margin call asset from the sell off and depressing prices in the margin call asset in an exponential spiral downward. each company in a panic and in free fall is selling to cover the margin call at exponentially lower prices.

Although it's very affordable and can probably cash flow decently short term, real estate wealth is built over the long haul.

Investing is a great way to obtain financial freedom and generation wealth. I

Cash flow is important but it won't make you wealthy.

My goal is to become wealthy through real estate so that my passive income is more than my expenses. 

On hindsight, I should have reduced the price sooner.LESSON OF THE WEEK: BEING WEALTHY IS A FINANCING GAMEDo you want to acquire big apartment buildings?

Credit cards will never make you wealthy.

Places who rely on super wealthy folks like Jackson will be fine, and even tourist spots like Yellowstone, and ski resorts will be OK. 

I have been doing research online and aparently apartment buildings are the key to creating long term wealth. I