They're walking distance to: a new (successful) brewery, a great new street filled with restaurants and bars, a minor league baseball stadium, and a new 60 mile river bike trail.

Timonium is 40+ miles away from Mount Airy.

You can't have two FHA loans at the same time unless you do one of these two things:1. refi the original house conventional2. have a qualifying life event (add a dependant, job transfer 200+ miles away) but you need I think 15% equity in your house (double check that, I am 90% sure it is 15% equity)@Marvin Anaya

Some people do in fact commute 50 + miles to Bangor .

The absentee owner count for SFR within a 30 mile radius is about 60.  

Honestly, it has not been easy to manage the property being 5,300 miles away from the apartment (at least from our experience!).

Currently I am putting in offers on multifamily properties in the Honolulu metro area (and surrounding 10 miles or so) with the goal of living in one unit, renting out the rest and covering PITI and then some.

It's spread out and not as populated per square mile as the other cities mentioned above.

As far as areas, I invest in a 2 mile x 3 mile area so I cannot comment on the city as a whole.  

I go by the 20 rule, no more then 20 miles or 20 mins.