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Originally Posted by GMScud
I hear ya on the whole cost of living thing. I had been living in little old Gainesville, Florida for the past 8 years before last summer. Prior to that I was 19 the last time I lived in the DC area, and that was under my parent's roof. The cost of living shock up here was the equivalent of getting kicked in the junk. My girlfriend and I both have good jobs up here earing significantly more than when we lived in the swamps of north central Florida, and yet I feel like we have less money every month.
Check out this cool cost of living calculator I found:
Cost of Living Comparison
This calculator estimates that it's 46.2% more expensive to live in DC than in Gainesville!! EESH! |
I checked out the link. It costs 61.5% more to live in Boston (where I was born and raised for 22 years) than Carlsbad, NM (where I have lived for 11 years).
I also checked out the difference between Gainesville and Carlsbad, and it would cost 16.7% more to live in Gainesville.