I just compared my city (Jonesboro, AR) to most of the people on the board's city (Houston). What I was most shocked to find was that the average home here costs almost $80,000 more than the average home in Houston. I also found out that moving to Houston from Jonesboro would only raise my cost of living by 4% meaning if I made $50,000 a year I would only have to up it to about $52,000 a year. Houston's air and water quality are awful though but that was expected. Who says living in a big city cost more? Compare your city to another here: Compare Cities Overall To the left you'll find different categories of comparison.
Houston's average home prices are kept down for a couple of reasons. 1: Homes are just cheaper in Houston overall...cheaper to build, cheaper to buy. A house that is $500,000 in San Diego is $280,000 here. 2: While there are rich people in Houston, a huge amount of the upper middle class people in Houston with higher priced housing live outside the Houston city limits in the burbs.
Thanks for the link, Lil Pun. Compare Houston with Austin... what a trip! Houston is more than three times the size, but has "only" twice the Starbucks.
You're welcome. Where did you find the information about restaurants? I didn't see that anywhere on the site?
There is no specific place for Restaurant info, but the Starbucks info happens to be located in the "General" section.
Comparing my hometown of Stockton, CA to NY, NY, I found it is 100.9% more expensive to live in New York than in Stockton.
Lil Pun; Cool site. As someone who does work in Urban design this site is going to come in really handy. As for comparing my current city of Minneapolis vs. my hometown of Houston it actually looks pretty close. Surprising Minneapolis was worse off than Houston in several air quality related health issues. I'm going to stick that to the Minnesotans who joke about how Houston air is as healthy as car exhaust.
interesting that Pasadena is 79% White, 5.0% Black, 13.3% Other, 2% Asian and an astounding 35% Hispanic
79% white + 5% black + 13.3% other + 2% asian -------------------- 99.7% non-hispanic That 35% is astounding indeed!
