A few modest changes to your statement: lumber prices have contributed to elevated home prices. Not sure I would attribute the artificial rise of housing to lumber since lumber seems just to be market forces. Historically low interest rates and the work-from-home paradigm shift have also...
Even if it’s 50-50, you’re paying top dollar for a “breed” that has no pedigree and no real standards for breeding. It is a mutt (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but you’re paying a purebred price for it—and you can’t even be sure what its temperament will be.
If you want to get rich and retire early, what you’re doing is good. If you want to get richer and retire earlier, save 50% of your income and invest in rental properties sticking to the 1% rule.
I live in Falls Church. The best/ cheapest option I’ve found is Sling plus the sports package. I have never missed a state game that I wanted to watch.
1. Better schools. Being competitive with other MS schools only won’t get me to move to MS. Their schools will have to start being competitive with other schools in the SE.
2. Property taxes are too high.