In our case, the rising tide is a huge increase in housing demand because of the growth, and immigration of, national tech companies.

The area is safe, mostly with old/immigrant people and significant number of properties being rented.

There is a shortage of construction workers needed to fill future construction demand, and significant obstacles to expanding the supply of potential workers.He thus predicts:Construction wages will rise due to competition for scarce talent, stealing workers from other blue-collar industries.Workers will continue to flee the rust belt to the Southeast and Coasts where construction jobs will be.Since immigration laws will impede importing labor, sectors like agriculture and manufacturing will continue to move overseas.Other sectors will also hurt as rising costs for construction crowd out consumption. 

Always nice to see some other Belgians around.I'm going to try and get started myself later on this year.If you have any Belgian related immigration tips those are always welcome.I guess I'm going to start off with trying to get an E-2 visa down the line.

In the upper mid atlantic through the northeast multifamily housing became common during the mid to late 1800's with the influx of an immigrant workforce that needed cheap housing.

This place is located in a small agricultural town in Texas, with good local economy, and is occupied by what appears to be immigrant farm workers and their families.  

That and immigration tends to benefit those parts of the country.  

I feel in California and hopefully this does not offend anyone there was alot of immigrant labor that would allow you to keep costs down.

PS: All of those areas were Italian immigrants up until the 50s, but even when I was growing up in Orange in the 70s there were still a decent amount of Italians.

Hi,

I need opinions on buying our first house. My wife and I are currently renting, both have full time jobs with a pretty good joint salary. The thing is I am from Australia and have only been legally in the country...