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Here's how much $100 USD is worth in your state and....

CT- 91.41

However, you couldn't pay me the difference to go live in any of those southern states.
 
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Calling some shenanigans on the KY statistics.

I moved from IL which is one of the worst to KY. It ain't all bluegrass and bourbon for cost of living here.

I pay more for car insurance on 2 cars in KY than I did for 3 in IL.
My home owners insurance is nearly double here than it was in IL.
IL state income tax was 4.5%. KY is over 6%.
In addition to that 6% if you live in Louisville or Lexington (the two biggest cities in the state) you are looking at another 2.75% or more in municipal taxes if you work in either of those two cities.

Where I make up some of the difference is property taxes. IL my $420,000 house was almost $10,000 a year. In KY my $430,000 house is only $4,300 a year.

Other downside? I don't get near as much house for the $$ in Lexington as I could IL.

Maybe if you lived in a smaller town in KY and outside of the major metro areas it's cheaper. But not if you live/work in either of the two major ones.
 
Unlike z1ggy, I would gladly take a large cash bribe to move to Texas. BBQ sucks up here in Connecticut.

Feel free to PM me your best offer, friends of Rick Perry 🙂
 
$89 in md.

the one thing i've noticed when i've traveled to exotic locations is that pretty much everyone i've ever met comes from one of the higher cost of living places (where obviously they are making more money). very rarely (and i can't even remember one person) i've met in an exotic vacation spot have i met someone who lives in the midwest or somewhere that the cost of living is dirt cheap compared to the more expensive areas.

so while it costs more to live in these places, the salaries are higher and therefore you have more fun money. obviously this isn't accurate for everyone, just a general observation i've made.
 
ultimatebob said:
Unlike z1ggy, I would gladly take a large cash bribe to move to Texas. BBQ sucks up here in Connecticut.

Feel free to PM me your best offer, friends of Rick Perry 🙂
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I couldn't stand the south because everybodddyyyy talks allll slowwwww like that, and are way more religious, and thus probably less intelligent. As much as I hate the stuck up pricks that live in the NE, I'm probably one myself, so I don't think the south would be a place I could live.
 
This feels backwards, like pre-internet.

For instance, if you make $50k in MS, that's the same as making $75k in CA but if you subscribe to netflix, it's $8 regardless. Buying something from amazon is the same (maybe there's tax but you get the point).
 
rsbennett00 said:
This feels backwards, like pre-internet.

For instance, if you make $50k in MS, that's the same as making $75k in CA but if you subscribe to netflix, it's $8 regardless. Buying something from amazon is the same (maybe there's tax but you get the point).
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I *think* this is only counting things like gas, home prices, groceries, etc etc and that the money is just given to you.. Not money that you earn via a job in that state.
 
purbeast0 said:
$89 in md.

the one thing i've noticed when i've traveled to exotic locations is that pretty much everyone i've ever met comes from one of the higher cost of living places (where obviously they are making more money). very rarely (and i can't even remember one person) i've met in an exotic vacation spot have i met someone who lives in the midwest or somewhere that the cost of living is dirt cheap compared to the more expensive areas.

so while it costs more to live in these places, the salaries are higher and therefore you have more fun money. obviously this isn't accurate for everyone, just a general observation i've made.
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Just because I like anecdote busters....

My wife and I traveled to St Lucia a few springs ago. Went on a random drunk boat tour around the island. Wound up sitting on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean with a teacher from a grade school across the street from where we lived in Iowa and another couple who's Mom worked with my wife's mother in South Dakota. That couple lives in Kansas City. We lived in central IL at the time.

So yeah. People from cheaper cost of living areas *do* travel to other places. It's just funny that we managed to find two of them so freakishly connected to us on a random drunk boat on a tiny island a bit north of South America.

😛
 
z1ggy said:
I couldn't stand the south because everybodddyyyy talks allll slowwwww like that, and are way more religious, and thus probably less intelligent. As much as I hate the stuck up pricks that live in the NE, I'm probably one myself, so I don't think the south would be a place I could live.
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You should change your name to NEPRICK.

That is all.
 
z1ggy said:
I couldn't stand the south because everybodddyyyy talks allll slowwwww like that, and are way more religious, and thus probably less intelligent. As much as I hate the stuck up pricks that live in the NE, I'm probably one myself, so I don't think the south would be a place I could live.
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if my sig didn't already have 2 mentions of religion, I would add that
 
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Just because I like anecdote busters....

My wife and I traveled to St Lucia a few springs ago. Went on a random drunk boat tour around the island. Wound up sitting on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean with a teacher from a grade school across the street from where we lived in Iowa and another couple who's Mom worked with my wife's mother in South Dakota. That couple lives in Kansas City. We lived in central IL at the time.

So yeah. People from cheaper cost of living areas *do* travel to other places. It's just funny that we managed to find two of them so freakishly connected to us on a random drunk boat on a tiny island a bit north of South America.

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not saying it doesn't happen, just saying that it's something i picked up on.
 
purbeast0 said:
not saying it doesn't happen, just saying that it's something i picked up on.
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Population density is also working in your favor. The entire state populations of Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, SD, Wy, and ND make up about the metro area of NYC.
 
JEDI said:
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if my sig didn't already have 2 mentions of religion, I would add that
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Go for it, it's true.

I also used both the salary calcs in the article and got vastly different results using the same To and From cities with the same salary. One said cost of living was 16% more for the new city than the old, and the other said 4%.

Based on the article, I'm guessing it's much closer to the 4% one, although when I compare rent prices in both places, housing is about 30-40% more expensive, so I don't see for any other things that could bring that back down a whole bunch. It's kind of weird actually.
 
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Population density is also working in your favor. The entire state populations of Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, SD, Wy, and ND make up about the metro area of NYC.
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yes, and all that plays into why there is more money to be made in NYC and the cost of living is more there.
 
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So yeah. People from cheaper cost of living areas *do* travel to other places.
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Yeah, I live in Indiana and in the last 10 years, have been to:

Italy (twice)
France (four times)
Spain
Brazil
South Korea
Mexico

and I'm going to Germany and Austria in a few weeks. Those are just the international trips, as I've also been to Hawaii and a few other domestic places as well. 😀
 
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Calling some shenanigans on the KY statistics.

I moved from IL which is one of the worst to KY. It ain't all bluegrass and bourbon for cost of living here.

I pay more for car insurance on 2 cars in KY than I did for 3 in IL.
My home owners insurance is nearly double here than it was in IL.
IL state income tax was 4.5%. KY is over 6%.
In addition to that 6% if you live in Louisville or Lexington (the two biggest cities in the state) you are looking at another 2.75% or more in municipal taxes if you work in either of those two cities.

Where I make up some of the difference is property taxes. IL my $420,000 house was almost $10,000 a year. In KY my $430,000 house is only $4,300 a year.

Other downside? I don't get near as much house for the $$ in Lexington as I could IL.

Maybe if you lived in a smaller town in KY and outside of the major metro areas it's cheaper. But not if you live/work in either of the two major ones.
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That's because this "study" came from a known right wing group. They look for data that fits their agenda and post it like that is the only thing you need to know. And of course idiots eat it up.
 
One thing that's cheap in KY? Drugs.

Seriously. I went to the pharmacy a few weeks back and grabbed a bottle of generic Tylenol and a box of gerneric Sudafed (allergy season here sucks).

My total? $2.86. The Sudafed was $.86 a box. 200 count of tylenol was $2.

😛
 
Wow this is complete nonsense, I think my state has one of the lowest amount per $100.00...

I plan on moving to Florida and am glad to see the number being fairly decent.
 
purbeast0 said:
yes, and all that plays into why there is more money to be made in NYC and the cost of living is more there.
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There's more to it than that too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/napal...least-fertile-states-in-the-us_b_5121893.html

High cost of living areas also have lower birth rates. Lower birth rates = less child care costs and hassle of trying to arrange child care if you flee the country for a week or more. Or more cost of bringing the kids with you.

Many people in the cheaper areas are very family oriented and tend to keep their travel in state due to cost/convenience/family friendly nature of it.

It's just not as simple as "they make more in those areas and travel more". Different demographics and different motivations.
 
I am from the south but I do not associate with it(wouldnt no matter what area I was from) and do not look down or judge people based on where they are from either.
 
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