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Accurate-Historian-7 t1_j2739nb wrote

Reply to comment by Swamp_yankee_ninja in Population dips in Mass. and Rhode Island, Census figures say by bostonglobe

People anywhere can’t afford to live. Cost of living in America has become insane. Utilities are sky high, tax, homes, home maintenance, food, etc.

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UnsuspectingTaco t1_j27ezbe wrote

Surely wages have increased in tandem to offset these increasing costs. Wait, they haven’t?

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goldfish855 t1_j28p0n0 wrote

I moved from RI to SW Missouri for exclusively financial reasons and people down here always ask if salaries are higher since rent is double or more. And then I tell them I make more in MO because graduate degrees are fewer and farther between down there.

But I still miss the f*ck out of New England. Tryna get my money right and move back closer st least.

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Mountain_Bill5743 t1_j29z05p wrote

South West Missouri is just a different world. But hit up Johnson Shut-ins and camp in the Ozarks while you're there.

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thirdtimesthemom t1_j27omo1 wrote

I think the same is true in Canada

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smokejaguar t1_j28n0qa wrote

It's actually worse in Canada, which is precisely why they passed legislation curtailing property ownership by non citizens.

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