How much is $100 worth in each USA metro area. :patrice:

[concise]

We recently published a map showing how far $100 would take you in different states. For example, in states with low costs of living, like Arkansas, $100 had the same sort of purchasing power that $115 would have in an average state.

We got a lot of requests – particularly from upstate New Yorkers - for a map of purchasing power that separates out cities from non-metropolitan areas. Fortunately, that data is available from the BEA’s interactive tables, and we have created an interactive map of purchasing power down to the city level.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/real-value-100-metropolitan-areas



The orangest colors on the map, signifying the place where your $100 buys you the least, are in these five cities. One of them may surprise you.

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   • Honolulu ($81.37)
   • New York-Newark-Jersey City ($81.83)
   • San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ($81.97)
   • Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk ($82.31)
   • San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward ($82.44)

 

[radio rahiem]

New York is expensive!
Hawaii though did surprise me

 

[newworldafro]

New York is expensive!
Hawaii though did surprise me

Yeah... I've been hearing for years a McDonald's sandwich over there is like $5 bucks........they are so isolated that everything has to be shipped or flown in .........


This got me looking at my home county back in North Carolina like ..... If I had a good job out there... I would be doing alright .... grass is not always greener on the otherside ...

 

[Tunez]

@Deadpool1986 did this already

 

[Remote]

Yeah once you get about 1.5 hours north of NYC, it gets pretty cheap.

 

[Remote]

@Deadpool1986 did this already

It's broken down more than Deadpool's thread.

-Edit, it was Ethnic Vagina Finder, not Deadpool

 

[Fat Kevin]

I wonder why Bridgeport/Stamford is so expensive