DOWNTURN IN CITIES

If your income doesn't top six figures, making it in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco can be tough. It can take more than a decade to save up enough money to buy a house; and even then, the size of that mortgage payment might keep you up nights.
But if you're willing to look beyond these urban hot spots to midsize to smaller cities in the middle of the country, there are cheap places to live where the economy is strong, home prices are appreciating and the quality of life is good.

One of those, of course, is Tyler, Texas. All of us are being hurt by prices right now, but smaller cities are doing much better. And your money goes a lot further. http://www.johncmartin.com/ is the primary source for luxury homes in Tyler Texas and in East Texas.