[Lancey Howard]

...but $144,000 might be the same as $60,000 in the Midwest

Are you on LSD?

[madison10]

ALL I’m saying is the costs of living vary greatly and what the mid/average wage is for the coast(s) (Pick one.) are not the same. You know darn well the average price for homes varies greatly. Is that not the cost of living? So why wouldn’t the mean for the wages work on the same scale?

‘Course I AM from Michigan...the average yearly income used to be higher here.

[thefactor]

I live in Manhattan. A bottle of Bud at a bar costs between 6 and 8 bucks depending on where you go. It doesn’t cost that in the Midwest. I make six figures and it does NOT go that far.

[Big Horn]

The city will be vacant someday. does anyone in NYC make less than 100 thousand a year?