Population and economic growth, strong tourism, proximity to other New England cities.

That seems extreme to me, but even if is only 10% of that, that's more than our States entire population, the implications are supermassive. 

The big pros are the strong job market (lots of major employers), good population growth, and still-reasonable entry prices.

If you know the 2 bedroom median rent in the area, population trends and the last time rent was raised that's helpful too

As is often the case, it harm low-income populations most.

That said, the construction is slowing, and I believe Huntsville’s population growth will make this a good investment over 10+ years.

I'm an investor here in Columbus OH myself and have seen the city's solid and steady growth with strong economic fundamentals driving the market like major companies moving here (Meta, Intel, Google, Amazon, etc), job growth, and population growth.

I know there is a huge shortage of housing and that has driven up price in the past couple years (along with other factors such as the pandemic, population growth, etc) so, I see listings for 2br-1bth for up to 2200 on places like Zillow, Redfin, etc.  

One reason eastern KY really lags behind is that they don't have a lot of employment opportunities and lower populations.

I need help finding statistics of appreciation, population growth, job growth.California of course has great appreciation and limited competition growth with high house prices making renting almost a necessity but I worry with more people leaving California then coming in this year that Phoenix might be a better investment in terms of long term growth.