MSA Trend Data - What to use?

[Chris Gordon]

I'm going to move and will be in a location where I can easily invest in a few MSA's within easy driving distance.

The challenge to getting a solid handle on what those MSA's are doing overall is finding decent data: it's either for a single point-in-time (not showing year-over-year trends), dated, not reputable/no idea where it comes from, or too much money to take a chance on it answering my questions.

Any recommendations?