Are there any cheap cities that have expensive city attributes? (living, price)

[Urban Luxury]

Just a quick question.
Are there any cheap cities that if you took away the cheap pricetag, you would think its expensive?

[kidphilly]

Cheapness is relative and even so so-called cheaper may be far more expensive in the more desired parts.

From a traditional city standpoint Chicago and NYC or many smaller cities would fit

Also Atlanta, Houston and DFW would likely meet this criteria as well

[Urban Luxury]

I was thinking Miami and Charleston sc

[Bizurko]

Atlanta is definitely in this category. The cost of living is amazing there.

[j_cat]

Phoenix

[JKFire108]

Wasn't Pittsburgh supposed to have a low cost of living (thus is cheap) but also have a good amount of urban amenities you'd think you'd find in an expensive city like NYC?

[RioDominicana]

I would say the Midwestern and Rust Belt cities, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, the really old money, Great Lakes cities.

[NYMTman]

Philadelphia is surprisingly cheap.

[newtohouston2]

houston is really cheap imo...and has a lot of "expensive city" amenities

[grapico]

doesn't it matter what attributes you are talking about? for me, the attributes might be grand boulevards, parks and unique shops...for you, they might having some high end designer stores.