I know $20k seems like a lot of money, but if it wasn't enough to pay for your existing lifestyle in a new location, then it wasn't enough. The fact is that cos

I know $20k seems like a lot of money, but if it wasn't enough to pay for your existing lifestyle in a new location, then it wasn't enough. The fact is that cost of living differs enough from place to place that what you can buy for 80k in one place might only cost 60k in another, but 120k in a third. Housing, of course, is the major culprit in this calculation.