$65,000 in Los Angeles or Chapel Hill NC? (Durham: house, income)

[powerranger520]

i'd love live in LA, no matter the income

[CA4Now]

Chapel Hill in a minute! It's beautiful there! And has a much less expensive cost of living.

[grapico]

sure you might have an extra bedroom, but then you are in a college town and small time metro, and not los angeles.

qol stuff is so b.s.

who cares if you have some more space if you don't like where you live or the people there.

I'd take a 1 bedroom apartment in LA (or insert SF, Chicago, NYC, etc) over a 5 bedroom house in Chapel Hill, not even a second thought.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by grapico

sure you might have an extra bedroom, but then you are in a college town and small time metro, and not los angeles.

qol stuff is so b.s.

who cares if you have some more space if you don't like where you live or the people there.

I'd take a 1 bedroom apartment in LA (or insert SF, Chicago, NYC, etc) over a 5 bedroom house in Chapel Hill, not even a second thought.

Did it ever occur to you that not everyone considers living in a 10,000 square mile sea of concrete, surrounded by millions of people living on top of each other, to be a high quality of life?

[JohnSoCal]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

So then those cost of living calculators aren't really accurate if you have to go from owning a 3 bedroom house for $1500/mo to renting a 2 bedroom apartment for $1800/mo. That's not apples to apples cost of living.

Most decent cost of living calculators compare both renting vs renting and buying vs buying,

[grapico]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Did it ever occur to you that not everyone considers living in a 10,000 square mile sea of concrete, surrounded by millions of people living on top of each other, to be a high quality of life?

Of course. The same goes otherwise.

[Ingenere]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Did it ever occur to you that not everyone considers living in a 10,000 square mile sea of concrete, surrounded by millions of people living on top of each other, to be a high quality of life?

somebody's a little upset

[grapico]

Originally Posted by Ingenere

somebody's a little upset

yes, the point was Chapel Hill is not an apt replacement for LA... now if it was San Luis Obispo or Santa Cruz to Chapel Hill, that's a different story. If it was LA to say Chicago and saving bang for the buck, that's a different story. Chapel Hill might as well be on another planet.

[Dunbar42]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Did it ever occur to you that not everyone considers living in a 10,000 square mile sea of concrete, surrounded by millions of people living on top of each other, to be a high quality of life?

Those people probably wouldn't be considering moving to LA in the first place. So it's kind of a moot point in a thread such as this one.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by Ingenere

somebody's a little upset

Because they can't escape California.