Thanks to E from Radford and C from Richmond who share wonderful resources on a regular basis and recently they each intersected with info on cost of living.

Best Places hands down wins the award for the best cost of living web site around. It give tremendous details and even qualitative data from folks from each region.

This New York Magazine article talked about the value of a dollar in NYC is only 76.2 cents. 

We often times do not know how great a deal it is locally to work, live and play as compared to other places in the U.S. Take some time and play with these sites and read the materials to see how we compare. You may be surprised.