Posted on 06/24/2025 9:38:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
But the fresh fruit and vegetables in California are fantastic.
Real estate is relatively cheap in Oklahoma, but food is high, here.
Also the pay is much higher than the cost of living difference vs places like Alabama.
Ahhh! The state of California. Home state of the fruits and nuts!
The price of gas in some parts of NYS was a DOLLAR cheaper per gallon than the state of Washington.
“But the fresh fruit and vegetables in California are fantastic.”
I hear the same thing about Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.
I prefer the crazies and non-thinking emotional GOP types stay where they are now...we do not need them in Arkansas as we have to deal with the Mid West Snow birds and they are bad enough and but when you add a dose of Texans in the mix then you got trouble.
Yes - looking at just the prices and not the pay doesn’t help most working class folks.
I’ve thought about northeastern Mississippi as a possible alternative if Alaska becomes too unbearable. I’m talking extreme northeastern Mississippi.
California: The "Granola State!" Home of fruits, nuts, and flakes.
Regards,
In what way / why should Alaska ever become "unbearable?!"
Regards,
Yep. I forgot the flakes. :)
Jeez. Not this shit again!
My wife and I love traveling to Arkansas. The Natural State. Beautiful scenery, inexpensive lodging and food. Nice people. Even Hope, Arkansas and the Clinton Library are interesting places to visit if you like US history. Mount Magazine, Petit Jean, Eureka Springs, Bentonville/Fayetteville, Little Rock (great river front park), Hot Springs. For our anniversary recently we stayed at Coulter Farmstead at Washington, AR - very interesting place I recommend you check out online and visit. Stayed in Owen Neal log cabin built in 1840. White River, Crater of Diamonds, etc. I don’t work for the State of Arkansas tourism board, but maybe I should.
Doing any kind of an analysis at the state level is a bit misleading given the differences between the individual towns in a given state and the way averages can be skewed by outliers. In Tennessee for example; there is a vast difference in cost of living, crime and quality of life between Memphis and Brentwood. Similar differences can be observed between towns in pretty much every state. To get even more granular; even certain sections of individual cities can vary greatly. Any analysis of this kind done at the macro level should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.
Are local taxes included? Sales, personal and real estate property tax rates are part of the cost of living.
One of our sons is running a small business in Arkansas. We’re going to visit him soon. Pea Ridge Military Park is on my list when we go. There the Yankees defeated the weirdest Confederate Army ever assembled.
The relative cost for most of the states in the middle, especially, varies by income level — and by the availability of your type of work and the associated salary, what you spend your money on and whether you are working or retired, etc.
Oklahoma is hot. Real hot. You don’t want to move here. And there’s nothing to do. Go to Nebraska. Or Kansas.
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