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These California bashing threads never grow old.

The secret is, you don't *need* a huge amount of financial resources to buy a very decent place in many parts of the southeast. I'm certainly no land baron. But this little 5 acre patch in a fairly picturesque region of the Bluegrass, with a very decent, yet unpretentious house cost me me much less than one half of a duplex in many areas of the country.

Much to my dismay, it's being slowly, yet surely discovered. Houses are going up in many places up and down the road as people abandon the liberal, crime infested schittholes that Lexington and Louisville have morphed into.

If I've been fortunate in anything in life (and in many cases I *haven't*) I've been able to spot properties which are a bargain. The little 1920s bungalow in a historic neighborhood that I bought in Lexington 20 years ago is paid for and is rented for enough to pay my mortgage and utilities on this place. I live on Earth for the cost of food to feed me. The bungalow is currently valued at about 2.5 times what I paid for it and a number of millennials who wish me dead are lined up to rent those old formerly working class antebellum houses which make up the century old neighborhoods in Lexington.

I put them in mine and went country.

Now, those same millennials who have been touched by the possibility of violence in the urban schittholes that American cities have become are driving up prices out here in the scenic areas of rural Bluegrass Kentucky.

I got in before the schitt hit. 20% down + the rent from my former dwelling bought it.

There's a very nice small house on five acres which adjoins my property which very well may be going up for sale soon. It will be mine if the price is right.

20% down and let somebody else pay the rest while the appreciation goes in my pocket.