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I live in Idaho, 7 years now. My total operating costs of my 3300 sq ft home is $750 a month. This is everything except food.
My Pops lives in California, Bay Area/ 4300 sq foot home
His Total Costs is $2500- he never even turns his ac on. He sweats it out. I have my air on every day in the
summer.
he also pays more for gas, food and insurance.
Idaho is moving up though, my $750 is history, but I am ready., I was born for this. Bring it on.
Both Homes are Paid off
Taxes
Cali-14k
Idaho-3.3k
My Pops gets hoosed on taxes. insurance and everything else. he can't even park in the street with the all the cataylic converter theft there.
Cherrypicking one household in California and one household in Idaho does not tell anyone anything. To begin with, "somewhere in Idaho" and "somewhere in the Bay Area" are not directly comparable, and you haven't defined total operating costs. Tell us what you are counting up.
I live in Southern California in a SFH. Annual property tax is $3600. Utilities + fixed costs (counting electric, gas, water, phone/Internet, waste removal, and association fee) total roughly $400/mo. This does reflect the fact that we turn on our a/c maybe 7-10 times per year not because we are sweating it out all summer but because otherwise we don't need it. We also don't heat the house ever because we don't need to.
Not sure what Pops is doing to run his household bills up so high. Maybe it's a personal problem? And, I have to admit I looked at your previous posts and noted that you have been retired for 23 years. HOW OLD IS POPS? Hey, if the guy is 95, still driving, and still enjoying life in his 4300 square foot house, more power to him and leave him alone about the expense. He can't take it with him, anyway.
Agree about your cherry picking. Makes the comparison meaningless. What was the real point of your post OP, humble bragging? If your dad likes where he lives (and there's more to liking a home/surrounding area than operating cost!), that's what matters.
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