Posted on 02/07/2015 9:05:22 AM PST by Baynative
A newly released map from the Tax Foundation shows the relative value of $100 varies, depending on the state in which you’re looking to spend money
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I live in Alabama and I have lived in DC, NOVA and Merryland. Of course, up there in DC metro I was a GI, and had to have a part time job just to survive. And that was 30 years ago when things were cheaper.
Now in Alabama, I make far more than I ever have, I have a wonderful, big modern home with every conceivable comfort, lots of land, great winter weather/no snow, do almost all my work over the Internet, get 6 figures, and things here are much cheaper. Maybe it’s all the Walmarts?
I will say I am very proud to NEVER HAVE TO GO BACK TO DC METRO AGAIN!
...and your income is 10X higher as well.
I am in Pasco county now.
For example, the home I own in Southern Connecticut, I would probably be able to buy the same home in say Alabama, for 1/3 of the price.
LOL...thanks. Yep, there’s a vid of everything, isn’t there. Even better would have been a pocket test — load a pocket and jingle them.
Cupro-nickel also smells bad on your hand after handling it compared to silver.
Those Yankees have always been supporters of higher taxes. And they are paying the price for it.
In the instance of Virginia and Illinois, they’re where they are due to urban concentrations in the north, suburban DC for VA and Chicago for IL. The rest of both states are very reasonable.
I bought my 1964 Chevelle Malibu SS in 1969 when I got out of the service. It was quite a bit less than that:)
Why a nationwide minimum hourly rate is stupid.
I was in the Navy at the time, so wasn’t making that much. And I’m retired now, so that won’t come out right. The original point was to illustrate how money is worth about one tenth of what is was 50 years ago.
Shoot, I remember talking to co-workers in 1968 about how anyone making ten thousand a year had it made. Makes you wonder why we bother minting coins at all. I stopped carrying change years ago just from the nuisance of it piling up on the dresser. It’s all paid by plastic now.
And we’re #1 in children inoculated for measles, if only our legislators elected to federal office were as Conservative as those elected to state office. I believe it’s the influence of barbour’s lobbying firm in Washington.
Don’t we wish we still had ‘em?
I live in MA and RI surprised me.
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I live in MA and RI surprised me.
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Got a least a half a dozen cars I wish I still had, but that Malibu convertible is certainly at the top of the list.
Compare that to the red/blue political map. Says a lot.
Yeh they do it with 50’s here also.
Keep it quiet before your MA neighbors move to RI as they did to VT and NH, ruining both states. Not much, but there’s still SOME hope in R
“Keep it quiet before your MA neighbors move to RI as they did to VT and NH-—”
I agree with you about NH but most of the transformation of VT is due to New Yorkers.
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