If you own a home in Southern California and get transferred to Alabama or Missouri I bet that you will be able to buy A really nice house back there.
A lot of nice things will come with that inexpensive house, too. Bugs, oppressive heat, miserable humidity. Did I mention bugs?
I met a gal on a trip to Springfield Missouri from Orange County. She and her husband own an internet company, can work from anywhere as long as they have high speed internet. She was on her way to the Branson area to buy a house, they had just sold their house in Orange County.
She was on the same flight back so I asked if she had any luck. She said.....I just paid cash for a 3000 square foot log home on 3 acres.