The South beckons.
By the time you pay for all those winter clothes, you’ve lost half your “adjusted income.” I’ll stick with my pitiful southern wages, thank you.
“12. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood”
If you like communist riots via BurnLootMurder and panti-fa thugs.
Sorry but the San Jose and San Francisco areas have such astronomical costs of living and state taxes that their rankings are patently inaccurate ( even with some high wages in electronics, etc.). Most workers are priced way out of even simple old tract housing and one bedroom apartments in any relatively safe area are all over $3000 a month rent, unfurnished at that. The prices there of almost every good and service are all inflated due to the extremely high taxes and rents and utilities costs. But, some of the other ranking make sense. Rochester MN and Boulder CO and xxx?
The South beckons.
Local tax burdens are on top of this, so for the vast majority of these, it comes right back out.
It is amazing, though, what vast amounts of bonds at the local level can do to even out present costs over future generations.
When I lived in NYC, I discovered that if you own a cheap place to live you can do very well. You don’t need a car, and the wages are very high.
Liberal Free Zones - bump for later...
Interesting list. However I’m not interested in living in any of these places as they have nothing to offer me. Looking overseas now as I expect the US will spiral down under Biden and liberal state governance
But if one can WFH without commuting to the job, or you retire, then https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/places-to-live/601488/25-cheapest-us-cities-to-live-in. But our prayer should be like, “Lord, led me to the place you would have me seek and serve you in, that is best spiritually and otherwise to than end, to your glory.”
Just keep in mind that a work environment which allows you to work from your home, also enables someone to do your job from India, where the cost of living is even lower.