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Originally Posted by Deschodt
Oh absolutely... Just saying, it's a big factor and sometimes people forget about it.
Since you brought up California, and just to further the discussion of costs, I'm finding out my property tax + hurricane insurance + bug man + higher A/C bills make my cost of living higher in FL than it was in California (lower prop tax but state income tax), same sq footage... Lot of variables to include when figuring out where to retire.... ;-)
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I can get a shirt laundered at the dry cleaners for $0.99 here. 10 years ago the same thing in San Diego was close to $5.
The closest equal to my situation back in San Diego would have been living in Encinitas (20 miles out from downtown and really nice suburb). To have a house and yard similar in size there, would have been about $2M (3400 sq ft house, 10K yard, 27000 gallon pool). The property taxes would have been twice what I'm paying here.