@Curtis Waters Good advice. lots of people to network with when attending local meet ups@Carlos Diaz The Queen City ranks No. 2 among the country's 25 largest cities for population growth between 2010 and 2013 charlotte market is BOOMTOWN!

Downtown SF has very high per capital crime rates because of the high transient population (visitors) vs the actual residents included in the per capita statistics, so I feel perfectly safe walking through there.

Capture rates for your sphere of influence are infinitely higher than any other segment of the population.

One word:   OverbuildingHere are some stats and data to back up this observation: Size of US vs Canada economy - 9X (GDP per capita roughly equal at ~$53K)Canada's Population - 36M (2015)US Population - 323M (2015)Population Growth Canada - 308,000 or 0.9% (2015)Population Growth US - 2,345,000 or 0.73% (2016)Average Persons/household, Canada = 2.5Average Persons/household, US = 2.5Average annualized housing starts over past year, Canada - 197,000Average annualized housing starts over past year, US - 1.13MBased on above data, it seems that Canada needs a new supply of approximately 123K (308,000/2.5)  housing units per year to sustain the population growth.  

As well it has a growing population.  

I have had students in my MF but they are usually on the more mature side, noise between units and parking can be an issue with a younger student population.

-----------------------------------------To do these calculations in a financial calculator you populate the 3 fields that are known and use CPT (Compute) on the field that you want to solve for.Hopefully this helps with the calculations.

Diversity in the economy and population growth are very important.  

I think the biggest problem right now is the markets that the prices are above 2006 and the salaries are below sometimes by 30-40% one or the other will have to give. also do not pay attention to unemployment numbers in 2006 63% of the population was working now we are at 59 1/2 % about 4 million jobs worth.

The best place to go has a diverse economy and a growing population.