Go to any country that experiences high inflation and you'll see.Is it? How is something purchased at a lower price and sold at a higher price not a good investment?
But that's not the point I was making.
At some point there was a massive deviation of prices from the CPI, there is a reason for this - monetary policy allowed the creation of asset bubbles.
The "housing can't crash, just goes up" posts in this thread pay no regard to the fact the situation we've grown accustomed to over the past few decades is not normal by any means, and the certainty ignores the economic situation at hand (likely stagflation) could very well bring prices back down to earth, and that the likely policies 10 years from now will not be as lenient as the world will likely change rather drastically from now til then.