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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is one thing I don't understand about moving to a lower COL city. If you move to a "lower" COL city, aren't you still paying same/more for cars, plane tickets, gas, groceries, taxes, refrigerators, movies, clothes? Does the cheap real estate prices offset all that even with a lower salary? [/quote] It's gotten to the point that if you want a good/great school (all parents do) a short commute and an overall "nice" area you are going to have to drop at least 700k and up.... more likely pushing the 1mllion dollar mark To me this is insane when there are tons of place in the US you can get that for 400-500kmax easy Real estate is the biggest expense for most folks and why we are out of here when we have kids. It's just not worth it to us even with say a 10-25% salary premium of here vs somewhere else.[/quote]
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