Which city is cheapest: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, or Washington DC? (compared, Boston)
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Having lived in New York while I interviewed for a couple of jobs in the San Francisco area a couple of years ago, I'm convinced San Francisco is more expensive than New York. In New York, I lived in a two-bedroom apartment in a safe, diverse, walkable, reasonably affordable (by New York standards -- my apartment cost $275,000) part of Queens with great public schools and excellent public-transit and highway links. Just in case there was an opportunity to make the move, I searched for a similar neighborhood in the Bay Area. Didn't exist -- not even close. If I could find that neighborhood in New York but not San Francisco, I'd say that makes New York cheaper.
I did relocation research on all those cities and found Los Angeles to be the cheapest of the four. Not that it's cheap, but it was pretty clearly the cheapest.
On average, especially compared to Manhattan, it is a little more expensive. The thing that NYC has over San Francisco is size. If you really want to live in the city of San Francisco and pay less, you don't have nearly as many options as NYC. NYC still has areas that are priced relatively well. They aren't going to be in Manhattan (though I've seen some really bad places for cheap in some parts of Manhattan before - but if you don't plan on being home much then whatever), but there's some that aren't too far away that are ok. Astoria, Queens for example still has relatively well priced places. Prospect Park in Brooklyn can be the same thing.
It has to be DC or LA. If you live in a mediocre suburban area (Prince Georges County, MD or maybe Inland Empire, CA) it can be downright cheap. NYC and SF don't really have cheap areas anywhere, at least not relatively close to the city core or non-ghetto.
The IE is not close to the city core though. LA near the core is usually expensive even when the area isn't considered particularly desirable. LA appears to be "cheap" because we have millions of people living in the "hood" and only paying $1,100 to $1,500 for rent.
LA is a dump that's why it's so cheap. SF and NYC are expensive because they have folks that would pay to live there and they have better salaries than LA.
Uh, because the poll has nothing to do with your claim that LA is cheap? Or maybe random C-D forumers' opinions aren't consistent with actual Census verified data?
Not my fault you don't understand the poll question, or the difference between fact and opinion.
LA does have Tech. They don't call it Silicon Beach for no reason. A lot of gaming tech companies are located there too. It also has a few banks and finance.
Uh, because the poll has nothing to do with your claim that LA is cheap? Or maybe random C-D forumers' opinions aren't consistent with actual Census verified data?
Not my fault you don't understand the poll question, or the difference between fact and opinion.
Lol so how's LA the most expensive city in the US if SF, NYC, DC, SJ, Boston, SD, OC, Seattle, Alaska, ND, Oakland, Hawaii, etc are more expensive?
Lol so how's LA the most expensive city in the US if SF, NYC, DC, SJ, Boston, SD, OC, Seattle, Alaska, ND, Oakland, Hawaii, etc are more expensive?
Not my fault your wrong
You don't even understand the difference between cities and states, you're just posting random places that may or may not be cheaper than LA, and you don't even have basic understanding of English verbiage or grammar. How are we to respond to such drivel?
LA is more expensive than NYC in four of the seven categories Red John posted, so I'm not seeing how it's the cheapest.
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