Depends if you think you’re going to ride a rising tide of appreciation when you buy a house, or if you have to accept its already long passed.
Aunts and uncles picked up homes in SoCal for 150-200k in the 90s, now worth 1-2m in some cases, but in any case, it seems unreplicable today.
If there’s a new frontier to capitalize on, a lot of us seem to be missing it…