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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?  
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We are looking at this now, and, for the most part, everything is cheaper.  Income tax.  Property tax. Private school is $15,000 a year instead of $35,000.  And that's just a big ticket items.  A friend moved from NJ to a lower cost area, and she says her groceries are 40% cheaper.  Pretty much anything that takes human labor is going to be dramatically cheaper. Comparable restaurants are about 30% cheaper.   I've checked things like boarding the dog, and that's about 30 percent cheaper. The vet is about half.  Gasoline depends mostly on state tax, so that varies.

I had to laugh about pp talking about people sitting around alone in their big houses in other parts of the country because there's nothing to do.  I grew up in a small town and we had a wonderful social life.  My Mother's rule was that "Only boring people are ever bored."  We threw parties, entertained friends, performed in the community theater, participated in community fundraisers, and we had a wonderful time.  All the same big theater productions that come to the Kennedy Center came to the nearest big city (about an hour and a half away), and we'd go see those.  I find it amusing that people here think that there's "nothing to do" if someone isn't orchestrating events for them.   [/quote]

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