For longer than the history of the U.S. or Canada people have agreed that the best long term investment was certainly real estate. Considering a spot in Paradise?
“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
-Shakespeare
“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”
-John Jacob Astor
Here is an article from Gallup.com that says the same.