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Plenty of people coming in from California and the east coast lately whining and complaining about how they thought the COL in the Dallas area would be way lower.
Sure. If you buy crappy or in the boonies.
I point out it's still lower than where they came from (in terms of what you get for the money), but they remain disillusioned bc they can't have their 4000 sq ft mansion in a prime location.
Crying to me about $3000 a month for an apartment in West Plano. I didn't build up your fantasies. Plenty of cheaper apartments in less desirable locations.
Always amazed at people that try to talk up their city. 3,000 gets you a pretty decent apartment in the DC area, and probably most of California. It should get you the entire apartment complex in Plano.
Wow what?? Isn't that a trendy area? I've always heard that Seattle is beyond expensive so I'm genuinely shocked by that. Those prices are cheaper than Santa Monica prices and probably even Venice too.
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. San Diego- Okay so obviously it's a desirable city but it isn't world class and it's very suburban. It's in southern California so obviously you should expect it to be expensive but MAN! According to realitor.com San Diego is the nation's least affordable housing market in the country when you take into account the wages in the area. The food is extremely expensive and so are the drinks (I'm talking LA prices).
. Sedona, AZ- For a town in Northern Arizona it is extremely expensive...from the food to the resorts to the median home price of $400,000...and the median home value is $430,000. That's more expensive than the average home value/cost in Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Austin, Chicago, ect.
Sedona's prices are so bad that the workers have to live 30 miles away in Cottonwood and commute, I know because I've talked to them on multiple occasions
Depends on where, at least with Houston, from what I've read lately, houses inside the 610 are in the LA price range (i.e. $600,000 for an 1,100 square footer)
The average one bedroom apartment rents for a bit over $1100 a month, and anything most would consider desirable is above $850 a month...with a median income (not household, per person) averaging less than 26K per year.
Burlington, VT, the state's largest city (only 40,000 for the city proper), is very pricey, and more expensive than many much larger southern and midwestern cities...
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