Democrat strongholds ....
Coincidentally, I wouldn’t want to live in any of them.
And its red blood that defends every one of those blue cities.
Why?
Let them burn.
OK, raise your hand if you ever paid $16.29 for a haircut (or $8.37, or whatever with cents in the fee)!
Orange County, Calif. is a county, not a city.
You can live cheaply in Manhattan if you put your mind to it. There is a lot of competition for your business, you just have to look around.
“Urban areas” Gag me with a maggot first. Would not live in one on a bet.
NYC has its pluses, but overall its a dirty aging city with lots of ‘rats’, both above ground in public office, and below ground in the subways and basements. If it wasn’t for the food grown in the kinds of places often scoffed at by liberal New Yorkers, one of the biggest attractions of NYC - its restaurants - wouldn’t exist. Unless I considered it ‘extra money/throw away money’ I would never spend a ton of money to buy a place in NYC. Why would I do that, when I could buy a significant amount of land with the same money somewhere else?
I’m still surprised that Harlingen, Texas is rated the most affordable place to live. I guess it is its isolation. It is about as far from anything in Texas as you can get. But, being close to the beach, it is a pretty clean city with lots to do. It is just cheap.
Asking price, $169K Click the photo for more pictures.
A few years ago, I considered applying for a job in Jackson Hole, Wyo., but was stunned when I learned about its sky-high cost of living, since costs seemed so reasonable in places like Laramie. However, I was told that Jackson Hole, where a lot of glitterati apparently make their home, “is not like the rest of Wyoming.”
Chicago too, once you add the cost of Kevlar outerwear
I CANNOT believe they missed Chicago!
By the way, Orange County only has that average high cost of living because of the Newport beach - Laguna areas. It’s a diverse county and has places that are reasonable, with access to plenty of places to save money.
It makes no sense to have the whole county in a list on par with manhattan. You can’t find a reasonable area of manhattan but you can get a reasonable (for SoCal) home in many many parts of Orange County. There are places to shop to get by on less.
Well, maybe to wave and have an extra bit of gratitude when driving (quickly) by that I'm not stuck 'there' !