I was born in Concord and my parents still live there. 

I was born in MN and it's a decent mid western state in terms of living.

My position is besides the lottery or being born into money the only way is through hard work, diligent saving, living below your means and investing. 

Look at us, we have a population that is in poor health with every 2nd person presently or soon diabetic, wide spread poverty, a level of crime and gun violence like no other country on earth, we managed to make education FOR-profit leading to massive student debt and universities being richer than small countries, if you travel a bit you can see that our infrastructure is worse than some of the ******** countries we look down on, our health care system is F'd up beyond believe, our food is one of the unhealthiest in the world, we are consuming ressources at a level that nobody can match, we are addicted to buying cheap crap nobody needs, have a dispose everything mentality, meanwhile our population is less happy than most of our peer countries.We just got back from visiting my family in Europe and after we landed at OHare and sat in a dirty, beat up shutte bus getting us to the parking lot over a cracked concrete road, garbage on the side of the road, power lines hanging everywhere, my US born wife shook her head said: I can't believe how run down and ****** everything is here..The US is a fantastic country and I have chosen to live here for a good reason, but we really need to get our head of our you know what and start thinking about where we want to be a few decades. 

Born and raised in this area and the difference in price is because home values are sometimes drastically different from block to block in this area.

=> A new REI is born !!!!!

You have to be connected, born rich, etc.

A market can only sustain so many defaults, foreclosures, and sales before prices get borne down on. 

I was born into poverty and therefore, I view the bumpy roads along the way as a normal part of life in general.

My name is David and I was born and raised in New Orleans, LA but have resided in Germantown, MD the past 12 years.