Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison

rdl wrote: post #5

Also doesn't seem to take into account income and capgains tax rates; for a single person making >120k that is a substantial cost savings on its own.

Yeah, not sure which you were referring to, but it should both factor in the different tax rates in the different states/cities and the fact that when you're at that lower equivalent salary (the 90k instead of the 120k), you're paying a lower effective tax rate because a higher % of your income is in the lower brackets.

Re: Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison

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Post by portlandFan12 » Mon, May 03, 2010, 12:01 AM UTC

I'd like to put in a good word for Portland (no sales tax, great food):

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc...

Re: Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison

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Post by _delirium » Mon, May 03, 2010, 12:02 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #5

Also doesn't seem to take into account income and capgains tax rates; for a single person making >120k that is a substantial cost savings on its own.

It doesn't actually seem to take the salary you put in into account at all: it gives the same 24% cheaper for $30,000 salary and $120,000 salary, even though the ratios of expenses shouldn't be the same for those two cases. At the very least, the weightings should change: someone who makes $20,000 is probably spending more than 12% on groceries, while someone who makes $10m is probably not spending 12% on groceries (or 10% on utilities). And the ratio of housing prices isn't constant across all types of housing, either.