This is not really useful though since the COL in and around cities will be drastically different than in rural communities; and the costs around one area of a larger state will differ from other areas (fir example the costs in Northern VA will be substantially higher than those around southwest VA, or the COL near Pittsburgh is much less than near Philly). States are just too large and non-homogeneous to make sweeping stats like this.
I don’t disagree, I’m just wondering whether data at the level of counties or even census tracts is available from their sources. If it is, that would make for a much better picture.
188k in California is bullshit. It’s a lot lower than that in most of the state. So I seriously question the calibre and objectivity of this article.
