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Where Is the Best City to Live, Based on Salaries and Cost of Living?
- mdorazio 7y agoThe adjusted vs. unadjusted income numbers aren't actually all that helpful. What I want to know is the dollar number left over after standard expenses in each metro (i.e. basically discretionary income). Housing in a tech hub can eat up half your income, but if you've still got 20K more left over at the end of the year than you would in a smaller city with cheaper housing you're better off in the tech hub. Teasing that out of the presented tables in not straightforward. See Disposable Income in [1] for a better take on this. Or even the older numbers from Citylab's own analysis [2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/people-in-these-cities-earn-worlds-highest-salaries-research-says.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/people-in-these-cities-earn-... [2] https://www.citylab.com/equity/2011/12/us-cities-with-most-spend-after-paying-housing/778/ https://www.citylab.com/equity/2011/12/us-cities-with-most-s...