My reasons are real estate specific and wonder if I can scale up much faster elsewhere while lowering housing costs as well. 

I can easily google for 50-200 acre plots of undeveloped land all over the U.S. for under $100k, but I'm thinking there's another level of scale I'm not seeing, such as government grants, auctions, etc.

No matter where you live or where you own assets, I personally recommend the Series LLC to be a great tool for the individual investor who is planning to expand their operation, as it allows for you to scale infinitely for FREE.

But flipping is harder to scale. 

This also applies to manufactured home lots.

I would learn more about the multi family real estate world and then buy one  building (but not worth 2m) and learn from your mistakes and then scale to bigger ones. 

@Dan Gamache $450,000 is the price, I t is a manufactured home community, all except one lot is rented I believe 

@Suthy Maxwell       Never run numbers based on you "managing yourself because you want to also scale someday. 

If all buyers and sellers were fluent in the practice of real estate, perhaps agents and brokers will end up like buggy whip manufacturers. 

@Khadijah Celestine Personally, I would be more inclined to invest that money into multifamily properties because of the larger scale efficiency, scalability, cash flow, and equity build up potential.