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Gold > Real estate

Gold is fungible, housing is not (unless you're a soulless bugman vagrant). Gold is durable. Houses can burn down. Gold is divisible. Housing is only divisible in a legal/equitable sense. Gold is portable, only some housing is portable. You have to depend on the authorities to protect your property rights (unless you have a gun), whereas you can just hoard gold away and nobody knows about. Literally accumulate gold until the next WWII-tier crisis then buy wasteland shit dirt cheap.