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ipraytomushrooms
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Which of these cities has the lowest cost of living?
#21455518 - 03/25/15 12:43 PM (9 years, 6 days ago) |
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Out of these cities, which ones have the lowest cost of living?
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Me_Roy
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Re: Which of these cities has the lowest cost of living? [Re: ipraytomushrooms]
#21455609 - 03/25/15 01:12 PM (9 years, 6 days ago) |
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Probably Portland.
I've heard that eating out is cheap there owing to a law that requires all bars to serve food (or something like that).
The Bay Area is fantastically expensive. So is the vicinity of NYC. Though I can't speak to rent prices in Hawaii, being so far off the mainland means that you'd be paying shipping costs for many products, and flying back and forth to points in the continental U.S. would take a major toll on your budget.
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gnomeHunter
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I can tell you about California because I have been to all those places.
San Francisco expensive San Jose, same thing but both have a way better public trans system than LA
Los Angeles is the cheapest but not nearly as nice, but it depends on where you actually end up living because the variations are dramatic. Also the convenience of pub trans depends on that as well. LA has mostly buses, NorCal has got a better rail service.
My friends told me Portland is a great place to party, I would go there over California. Although it has some of the best weather of the whole country.
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Me_Roy
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San Jose is famously boring.
Don't go to LA for the public transit. If you don't have a car there, you'll have a tough time of it.
SF is awesome if you're rich. Berkeley and Oakland are a little cheaper but prices are rising by the minute.
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Absent Minded
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Re: California cost of living [Re: Me_Roy]
#21461540 - 03/26/15 04:51 PM (9 years, 4 days ago) |
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My rank (having been a north jersey native for 22 years) would be as follows, one being most expensive: 1. Honolulu - no doubt, it is. What you pay more in SF for rent you pay more in HI for EVERYTHING. 2. SF/NYC combined. Imma split NYC Metro into two because you're simply not paying the same rent in Manhattan versus Hackensack. 3. Seattle, but who would want to live there is beyond me 4. PDX 5. North NJ suburbs/L.I. and surrounding boroughs of Staten I, Queens, BK.
Personally you couldn't pay me to live in any of those festering communist dumps, but that's just me. The WORST cities to live would be the title of that list for me Also that list is junk, cost of living is often different (and drastically so) in the cities listed within each of those numbers! Vancouver, WA, is right over the river from PDX... guess what, shave $150 off your rent a month, ya got legal dope AND there is no INCOME TAX. Oregon's income tax is ABSURDLY high. on a $45k/yr salary I'd wager you'd save 4-5k MORE a year living in Vancouver over PDX.
edit - did OR get legal herb? I forget
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Edited by Absent Minded (03/26/15 04:53 PM)
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Oregon got recreational and has some of the best medical laws. So good, in fact, people who use it medicinally voted against recreational for fear that it would compromise their very well-functioning and shroomy system. The income tax is high but in a majority of Oregon there is no sales tax. I believe some counties have it, but they are few and far between.
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