People talk in wild terms about regional gaps in cost of living but my experience suggests the main variation is just rent. Otherwise a dollar is mostly a dollar, you're not getting discounts on cars or plane tickets because you entered an Arkansas addresshttps://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/1366801937954463748 …
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Other prices do vary. Gas is cheaper in the countryside than in the suburbs or the city (something I used to keep track of when my mother lived in the DC suburbs and my father in a small town outside of Manassas, VA).
I get the sense that the spread of large chain groceries has lessened but not eliminated price variation there. But housing costs are, as I understand it, by FAR the most variable, often obscenely so.
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There is variation of other kinds but it's not as predictable or - more importantly - nearly as wide as people sometimes imply. I got cheaper groceries in Chapel Hill than in Chicago but not by life-changing amounts.
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It seems to me, from what I've seen data wise, that you can tell a lot of the story of economic pressure on folks these days as a story of housing scarcity and consequent high rents. Gotta build more housing.
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