Moving from Dallas to San Francisco, the prices at Trader Joe's and CVS, Mc Donald's and other nationwide chains were the same. Eating out and entertainment see

Moving from Dallas to San Francisco, the prices at Trader Joe's and CVS, Mc Donald's and other nationwide chains were the same. Eating out and entertainment seem roughly 50% more expensive here (service and food quality has decreased, oddly though). All of the cost of living calculators seem to assume that day to day costs scale roughly linearly with housing, but that hasn't been my experience at all.