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cost of living check - kalakoa - 07-13-2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/puerto-rico-cost-of-living
Highlights:
Gas $3.22/gallon
Electricity 20.118c/KWh
Milk $2.99/gallon
Head of iceberg lettuce $1.96
Sugar $3.21/pound
Cornflakes $5.09/10oz box
Bread $2.39/loaf
Potato chips $4.55/bag
2400sf house (4/2) $310K, mortgaged at around 4%.
Per capita income, $19K/year average
Unemployment 12-13%
Poverty 41%
"Utilities were the fourth-priciest in the US, after Fairbanks, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Hilo Hawaii."
RE: cost of living check - Kapohocat - 07-13-2015
Yup. Howard Dicus this AM told us HNN viewers that HI has one of the highest (but we already knew that).
$1 = 86-88 cents in HI,NY and CA.
$1.07 to $1.14 in many of the midwest and some gulf coast states
But I can walk 800 ft to the ocean and cant do that in the midwest.
RE: cost of living check - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 07-13-2015
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RE: cost of living check - DBisme - 07-15-2015
You don't have to shovel sunshine, priceless.