Posted on 04/07/2013 10:26:19 AM PDT by lowbridge
Which U.S. cities have the highest costs of living?
The Council for Community and Economic Research recently measured the prices of common purchases in 307 urban areas to find the cost of the professional standard of living in each location. The index, its fifth edition, crunched more than 50,000 prices -- everything from grocery items to transportation to housing.
The national average on the index is 100.
Following is a look at each of the 10 most expensive cities in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
I’ll look in their albums in facebook and see if they listed it. They have a lot of details like that.
One thing you can do is print the picture and take it to a hardware store that has a paint color scanner and match it up.
Thanks. I already saved the pictures with the yellow rooms. I pick out a color, bring it home and put it on the wall and it looks so different. Who ever thought it would be so difficult finding the right shade of yellow.
Haven’t paid a dime for a haircut in decades.
(flowbee really works)
By the way, Orange County only has that average high cost of living because of the Newport beach - Laguna areas. It’s a diverse county and has places that are reasonable, with access to plenty of places to save money.
It makes no sense to have the whole county in a list on par with manhattan. You can’t find a reasonable area of manhattan but you can get a reasonable (for SoCal) home in many many parts of Orange County. There are places to shop to get by on less.
I am having trouble imagining what kind of architecture you like. Houston has just about every kind of house you can imagine, and where ever you go, why not build a house?
Geez...$169,000 wouldn’t even get you a campsite in Hanover, Red Hampshire...
The tiny little color chips are really difficult. A good way to decide if a color is right for you is to buy a small can and actually paint a 4X4 section of the wall. Or if you don’t want to paint the wall, paint a sheet of poster board. That way you can move it around from wall to wall because the light in a room can make the color look different.
Beautiful!
Antique crap that should have ton down a long time ago!
Stately digs. Ample comparable old homes, many historic, in Waxahachie too. But not at that price. Then again, it is Marshall so...
Err, ifn you live in Marshall dont be offended, I simply meant Marshall is somewhat off the beaten path. Nothing wrong with rural living, a great many advantages in fact.
I agree. It is a bit geriatric for me (albeit, that much closer to New Orleans). Just a cost of living contrast.
Well, maybe to wave and have an extra bit of gratitude when driving (quickly) by that I'm not stuck 'there' !
I don’t have a picture of it but the following is what I turned down, at the height of the housing bubble:
Rural, 5 miles from the nearest town, “city water” but not sewer. Southern Missouri flat land, far away enough from the Mississippi River that it’s not prone to flooding.
A house sitting on ten acres of fully fenced land, 5 bed rooms, large kitchen, large dining, 4 baths, two “office areas” all on one level. Full finished basement that had a full kitchen and two baths of its own. The house had a back up whole house generator (Diesel)
Outside to go with the 10 fenced acres a fairly new horse barn with stables for 12 horses and separately, a monkey barn, yes, monkey barn. the family that lived there kept monkeys, that barn was the foulest smelling place ever, I probably would have bull dozed it had I bought it.
The 12 horse stables rent out at $100 per month apiece, owners of the horses take care of their own animals.
Included was a fairly large in ground pool with two bath houses, full price of the property was $215,000.
Rural means no big city amenities, 5 miles to the nearest general store, larger city 25 miles away, also you have the possible night mare of a septic system.
It was sold before I could make my offer, if it is on the market again, I will buy it, especially with today’s depressed prices.
How about Garbage Grove?
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