Plus I love traveling to Europe, so that's always a bonus being so close ;) I also live in a town where we're a 5 hour drive to the closest major city, so I don't mind driving at all.Thanks for your input! 

Dave Meyer is probably the closest to give a reasonably educated answer to that one. 

Where else have you lived, where else do you know, where do your closest friends and families live?

The median price for my market Milwaukee is $225,000 (which BTW has doubled in the last 9 years), so anything below is C and anything below half the median (112k) is D.I pulled numbers yesterday on every neighborhood for my next YouTube video and we have seen the highest % of median sales price increase YTD (the closest thing we have to measure appreciation) and the best neighborhoods are seeing the highest % - even though their median sales price is already the highest.You can map that out by simply putting a hypothetical portfolio in the BP rental calculator and see what happens after 10 years to a cash flow portfolio or an appreciation portfolio.

Many of my real life closest friends are people who I have met through this site. 

@Pedro JeanYes that’s the closest thing I have to what I could call a “plan” at this moment, to get a 2 to 4 unit multi family property and house hack the heck out of it.

Downtown EL is where all the bars/restaurants are and it puts you closest to the university as well.  

@Myeasha Jones the closest 'reasonable' rent will be Mountain View, still a good area and nearby.

Median home value of $160,000.San Jose was the closest in population to Columbus, so I used that to show the difference.

Sell to a landlordPick the one that gets closest to achieving your goals or results in the smallest loss.