Depending on your price range, in law suites exist more on the MD side of the border in the form of Basement apartments.

I gambled and told them NO---that he owed that amount and I was not willing to settle for less.

Oklahoma is close enough to the open Mexican border so there will be a constant population growth for immigrating families.  

Both have relatively hight taxes in the ball park of 4% of retail value and they both border some rougher neighborhoods.  

There's a lot of activity in NW Indiana right now as many people are migrating across the border from Chicago where they are still close enough to work in the big city, but live in a more affordable and less regulated environment.

Now that the country is 24 trillion in debt with a giant employment problem, huge geopolitical issues, domestic politics are bordering Banana Republic, those are not signs of a strong country.  

That neighborhood is kind of a gamble because the perceived value is based on the Almono development actually happening.

Clueless governments over time have added rules to "help" tenants for political reasons such as rent control, then more rules to avoid tenants abusing previous rules leaving a relatively complex system that no new government has the guts to really cleanup (BTW the city of Seattle is trying to go down the same path, clueless politics know no borders).Now, if there are still millions of RE investors, they must make some money somehow otherwise they would all park their money abroad or in commercial RE, leading to residential prices dropping. 

OR border to just south of Seattle that had 10 acres or more of visible timber ( via aerial photography that was available at the courthouse for free )  then we reversed directory them and had tele marketers hammer the phones 2 to 3 nights a week. 

Thanks @Josh Compton.I am looking in western NC, right near the TN border.