Cost of Living

Rather curious for comparative purposes as to what the cost of living is where we, individually, are.

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Currency: American dollar

Median home price: $395,000
A carton of milk: $3.50-$3.99
Gallon of gas: $4.01
Monthly transit pass: $75
Ticket to a Lakers game (good seats): $336
Movie ticket: $12-14
A cheap date: $40 (includes two alcoholic drinks, two entrees and tip)
A pricey breakfast: $30 (eggs benedict, one mimosa and tip)

Please share.

 

Pretty much the same in NY except here if you decide to drive when you go out parking is really pricey

 

I will give things specific to me.

My monthly bills

gas: $30
water:$30
electricity:$60
Transit bus:$60
Mortgage is 640 but if you rent is at least 1000.

That's pretty much it.

Houston, TX by the way

 

Damn kid your cost of living is LOOOOWWWW. Lucky you. That won't even cover my rent

 

Yup, That's the appeal of Texas!

 

Location: Bayside, Victoria, Australia
Currency: Australian dollar

Median home price: $1,000,061
A carton of milk: $2.21
Litre of gas: $1.45
Monthly transit pass: $129
Ticket to an AFL Final (good seats): $85
Movie ticket: $18
A cheap date: $30 (includes two alcoholic drinks, two entrees and tip)
A pricey breakfast: $30 (pacific eggs benedict, one mimosa and tip)

 

Median? Holy shit that's crazy. How can anyone own their home out there.

 

You have to remember to adjust for inflation. This is a country where minimum wage is like 17 18 dollars???

Over in the U.S.A., it is below 10.

 

that's the price of the homes in the area that I live (which is why I rent). Of course that changes with each area of Victoria.

The people here in my area are mostly professional working men (think GM and up), have 2 cars, usually a housewife (most of the wives I see at school are in tennis skirts, gym wear or designer wear) who runs the home and drop the kids off at their various activities. Generally, the salary for say a Finance Manager is $57,461-136,304+, superannuation is on top of that and it includes the 4 week yearly holiday.

 

Location: Suburban Kansas City
Currency: American dollar

Median home price: $140,000
A carton gallon of milk: $3.50-$3.99
Gallon of gas: $3.70
Monthly transit pass: N/A
Ticket to a Lakers Royals game (good seats): $100
Movie ticket: $10-12
A cheap date: $40 (includes two alcoholic drinks, two entrees and tip)
A pricey breakfast: $30 (eggs benedict, one mimosa and tip)

 

Location: San Diego, CA
Currency: American dollar

Median home price: $435,500
A carton of milk: $4.39
Gallon of gas: $4.18
Monthly transit pass: $72
Ticket to a Chargers (we don't have basketball) game (good seats): $130
Movie ticket: $12.50
A cheap date: $50 (includes two alcoholic drinks, two entrees and tip)
A pricey breakfast: $40 (eggs benedict, one mimosa and tip)

Not much different than LA.

 

Wow, I could buy a house today for that price.

 

Cheap date in SD: $10 for two burritos and sodas with a coked out San Diego State sorority girl in PB.

 

You'd want to spend more though, about 180K at least. Also don't forget, salaries are lower too.

 

Location: NW suburb of Chicago, IL

Median Home Price: $261,000
Average Property Taxes: $2,761
Median Apartment Rental: $1,150
Median Household Income: $66,500

Gallon of gas: $4
Gallon of milk: $3 (not on sale)
1 Ticket to the Chicago Bears (nosebleed seat - for the Vikings game): $384.17
Movie tickets: $10.75 - $17 (IMAX 3D)

There are too many different types of restaurants around me to get any type of median price for dates and breakfasts. But it's not super cheap. I'd say a little more than Saty's.

For example, I went to one of the better pizza places in IL (called Lou Malnati's) for lunch with 6 other people (my daughter being one). We mainly all had pizza (one person had a pasta dish, and another just ate an appetizer - 2 beers were drunk and our bill was $120.

The cost of living in my town is 25.7% higher than the cost of living in Illinois and 19.7% higher than the national average.

 

You're absolutely right. Anyone looking for that kind of date...PB is your spot!

 

Brisbane, Queensland , Australia

Median home price: $650 000.00
A carton of milk: $1.60 (1 litre)
Petrol: $1.46 (paid yesterday)
Movie ticket:$18 but gold class is $40
A pricey breakfast for 2: $55.00 no alcoholic drinks.
Cheap dates????????? try to avoid them.... bahahahahahaha

 

:smt043:smt043

 

Lol. I hate you.

I was accounting for the alcohol (so I was thinking of some cheaper restaurants around town). You know I'm a SoCal girl through and through...always happy with a taco shop dinner for two