This is like asking us if you should have carrots or peas with your dinner tonight. The answer comes dowm more to how you want to live your life than anything else.
If you don’t have to live in California in order to make a living or be happy – and 95% of Americans don’t – then there’s no economic reason to stay here.
The one thing you want to understand is that outside of the metro areas, homeownership is not that difficult to achieve. At the same time, it is also not the one-shot elevator ride to personal wealth. In those areas, housing is housing and once you get that settled you can free up your discretionary income for other types of investment beyond just your domicile.
