Comment by rjf72
6 years ago
The easiest solution of all is simply to live in a place where the dollar goes a lot further, which is like 95% of the rest of the world.
I don't really understand why more people don't go this route. It confuses me to see things like people living in places like Seattle/San Francisco when it's not strictly necessary. The amenities and interesting folks you find in these cities are not unique to these cities. The only things that seem very unique to them, in my experience, are the rather high salaries which, consequently, leads to an extremely high local cost of living as everything inflates in price in response to the salaries. Makes it a reasonable decision if you're drawing on these salaries, but if you're not...?
Moving to other cities might be difficult if one has a family. But generally speaking I agree that there are other places that are cheaper and still have access to a lot of talents.