See Which Cities Pay the Highest Software Engineering Salaries Adjusted for COL
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#2I've not visited most of the top 10 on this list, but I wonder if what you trade for COL improvements makes up for the experience of living in those locations. (A complex question if you factor in commute times, community factors and personal interests at a minimum.)
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#3I've not visited most of the top 10 on this list, but I wonder if what you trade for COL improvements makes up for the experience of living in those locations. (A complex question if you factor in commute times, community factors and personal interests at a minimum.)
That'd depend on what you'd want for QOL, different people value different things. Myself, I think quality of life in Chicago is so much higher than in BA that I'd take it even at significantly less money. Austin seems similar. Omaha on the other hand...
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#4How many of these weird cost of living calculators need to be made ?
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#5I've not visited most of the top 10 on this list, but I wonder if what you trade for COL improvements makes up for the experience of living in those locations. (A complex question if you factor in commute times, community factors and personal interests at a minimum.)
I can tell you from experience Baltimore is shit. Corrupt as hell and crime ridden.
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#6The big issue with this kind of calculation is that it assumes each dollar has the same marginal utility.
A much more useful calculation (and much harder) is how much money is left over living expenses, and how much utility (or enjoyment) is derived from that surplus. It might be nice to live in a low cost of living area, but if all the entertainment options are not appealing, it's not really useful, even if the options are cheap.
Re: See Which Cities Pay the Highest Software Engineering Salaries Adjusted for COL
#7The big issue with this kind of calculation is that it assumes each dollar has the same marginal utility. A much more useful calculation (and much harder) is how much money is left over living expenses, and how much utility (or enjoyment) is derived from that surplus. It might be nice to live in a low cost of living area, but if all the entertainment options are not appealing, it's not really useful, even if the opti…
Great point, and it's also not counting total comp, which I imagine is much higher on average in California.
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#8I've not visited most of the top 10 on this list, but I wonder if what you trade for COL improvements makes up for the experience of living in those locations. (A complex question if you factor in commute times, community factors and personal interests at a minimum.)
Bentonville has terrible traffic because everyone commutes from surrounding cities (barely able to call them cities imo), there's only one expressway N-S, public transit may as well be non-existent, and the bike trails and sidewalks turn into grass, ditches, or roads without warning on major thoroughfares. And no one here knows how to deal with pedestrians because it's too spread out and hot to walk around. Fayetteville is better because it's a university town, but not much if you're used to real metro areas. Grew up here, moved to Seattle, came back and I hate it.
Edit: Also the only major employer in Bentonville is Wal-Mart. They own the town, and almost all employers in town service Wal-Mart in some way. There's not a single other major retailer in city limits, there are two options for groceries: Walmart and a local chain of grocers. I guess they did recently put an Aldi in, but it's outside city limits.
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#9Which American cities, they mean. There’s a whole world out there, folks.
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#10> If you want to have your cake and eat it too, go to Columbus. 130K in a city with super low COL! And its mostly thanks to 1 company: Root Insurance Company, which seems to be paying out some seriously high salaries.
So basically, you probably wont be getting 130k in Columbus unless you get into that company?