Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] San Diego cost of living?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/3/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> I should add that another major complication in this kind of analysis is
> that in the most expensive cities, housing is so pricey that people often
> commute from smaller surrounding communities that are not listed in the
> Cost of Living Index.  For example, Cambridge, MA, is really pricey, so
> "no one" lives there, or so I was told when I interviewed for a job out
> there some years ago.

I sympathize with your point, but most COL indices for Cambridge would
usually be based on the Boston metro area I think, and there just
ain't anything cheap in that region.  Cambridge and Newton themselves
are now insanely pricey to *buy into*, but nothing is cheap at all. 
The key here is that academic types still live in the immediate area,
but they invariably bought in a decade or more ago.  My brother
commutes into Newton from  a town just next to the Rhode Island
border, and his pathetic 700 sq. ft. shack would probably sell for
more than my house.  (Tear-downs in Taunton and Attleboro...who'd a
thunk it?)

jking

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