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Almost everything. Important exceptions are housing, health care and education, which have large impacts on COL. But most else is cheaper.
by robotresearcher 5y ago
Almost everything. Important exceptions are housing, health care and education, which have large impacts on COL. But most else is cheaper.
- twalla 5y agoSo basically all the important stuff, but hey, at least you can get a 50 inch flatscreen for 100 bucks on Black Friday.
- toomuchtodo 5y agohttps://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/lookout/fed-official-heckled-t-eat-ipad-20110311-122230-439.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/lookout/fed-official-heckle... (March 2011: Fed official heckled: ‘I can’t eat an iPad’)
- twalla 5y agoThe real answer to inflation is to start constructing homes from iPads and flatscreen televisions.
- hpoe 5y agoIncidentally also the three areas where the government is most directly pouring money into, via FHA/USDA loans, Medicare/Meidcade, and Pell Grants and Loans respectively.
- someguydave 5y agoThose sectors (except construction) are also very well defended by interest groups against foreign workers in the usa. It’s okay to hire an Indian fresh off the boat (with a visa) to code at Facebook (probably after an older or more expensive domestic worker is unhired) without a license but it is unthinkable that say public school teachers face the same competition.
- IkmoIkmo 5y agoNot sure about that either. e.g. housing: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-prices-arent-as-high-as-they-appear/ https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/03/what-if-housing-pri...