The flip-side, however, is that rents are consistently healthy here; vacancies are generally low across the board; and, in some way, betting on northern New Jersey is a way of better on NYC (since, even if people may not actually commute to NYC, that's obviously the reason why the area is what it is).

Some of the best, most informative topics, come from a healthy debate like this one.

I am a member of Lifestyles.

This isn't for everybody, but you could retire with this lifestyle 20 years sooner.

- If I lost the $30,000, how would it affect my lifestyle?

Keep her healthy, happy, and working as long as she can. 

I still have to pay my bills in dollars, so I don't see how it is any better than buying a house in the meta verse that I can't actually live in but just pretend to live in.I prefer to focus on cash flow with real assets like property and fundamentally sound stocks with healthy dividends than gamble on someone in the future paying me more for a piece of computer code.

This can work if you understand the lifestyle/mindset of the people you'd rent to, but it'll end in disaster if you don't.

If it's suitable to a person's lifestyle, I would highly recommend house hacking as a great first investment to get into real estate investing.

I already saw several properties in North Western part (Keene, Hinsdale, Claremont) where the numbers seems like could work but the other thing is I have to find a place to live myself now and can't live in those areas yet both because of work and lifestyle wise (I need to fly couple times a month could be more down the road for work unless I work from home).