Is It Impossible to Achieve Financial Independence in Expensive Real Estate Markets?

New Chart and a Surprising Answer

I’ve been working on modeling a variety of real estate investing strategies in about 300 different US cities for the city podcasts.

Some real estate markets have expensive houses. Some have inexpensive houses.

That begs the question:

Is it impossible to achieve financial independence
in real estate markets with expensive houses?

I wanted to find out, so I cr…