In my area you can cross a city line or school district boundary, and boom there's a $2000 to $10,000 difference in closing costs, easy, standard, happens all the time, even if it's with the same title, escrow, lender, etc, in both cases.

With that I'm sure Scranton/Pocono's population would boom. 

On market, during covid boom.

Boom.

With the number of people getting into wholesaling expecting easy payoffs, the boom will fall soon . . . . the sellers will demand it and the realtors will support it. 

With the boom in real estate investing and the growing demand in the need for property managers there seems to be no way that this model is sustainable.

Boom!

They'll both see long term increased price growth in this booming market (I live nearish Raleigh), but all things being equal I'd guess a house would see more growth.

It’s not as big and booming as Bryson or Waynesville.

I have no problem buying as an REO or at the Trustee sale the same homes I built during the boom times and sold for 5 times as much.Build it and sell it for $200K, buy it later for $45K.