We stand to "save" about $75,000 in taxes from both the deferred capital gains taxes and the avoiding the increase in healthcare tax etc with our income pushed $350,000 higher for the tax year.I understand the easiest solution to my possible lender problem is to pay cash for the replacement property. 

That's the nature of healthcare IT (what I do)!

Lots of Navy presence (and healthcare) there.

I’m looking for information like crime, employment, hazards, healthcare, noise, parking, planning, traffic...etc.

It has a very low cost of living and excellent health care.

I meet precious few born-and-bred local investors in the area that ask themselves what's going to happen to the area after all the old people die (Pittsburgh is the oldest Metropolitan Stastistical Area in the USA) and geriatric health care ceases to be the main employer here.

Sounds like you've got a great plan and doing a military retirement you will have solved a major FIRE line item with healthcare.

Now I want to get into real estate full time and get outta healthcare.

At 60+, use retirement assets as fallback / healthcare buffer / etc., as needed. 

I think it's going to stem from the health care industry.