This isn’t close to accurate. The legend says the cost includes housing, childcare, food, healthcare and transportation. I’d love to be able to see the methodology. The average cost of childcare and housing are both about $2k a month in the state I live in. That alone is 48k a year.
No way. I’m in Mississippi and this is not my experience. Idk who they asked or how they extrapolated this from income data but just because people are poor doesn’t mean that it cost less, they just have less to spend.Â
I’m curious why Massachusetts is first, based off of the methodology it seems like the biggest COL change would be daycare/child care, is there a lot of transplants in Massachusetts? If people don’t have family in the area they’re raising kids in they’re more likely to hire help (daycare, babysitters, nannies). I have not heard of many people moving to Massachusetts to live, maybe for college but not to settle down and start a family.
Colorado, California, even Connecticut with how easy it is to get to NYC I can believe there’s a lot of transplants and therefore cost of child care is higher but I’m shocked Massachusetts is #1.
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This isn’t close to accurate. The legend says the cost includes housing, childcare, food, healthcare and transportation. I’d love to be able to see the methodology. The average cost of childcare and housing are both about $2k a month in the state I live in. That alone is 48k a year.
No way. I’m in Mississippi and this is not my experience. Idk who they asked or how they extrapolated this from income data but just because people are poor doesn’t mean that it cost less, they just have less to spend.Â
I’m curious why Massachusetts is first, based off of the methodology it seems like the biggest COL change would be daycare/child care, is there a lot of transplants in Massachusetts? If people don’t have family in the area they’re raising kids in they’re more likely to hire help (daycare, babysitters, nannies). I have not heard of many people moving to Massachusetts to live, maybe for college but not to settle down and start a family.
Colorado, California, even Connecticut with how easy it is to get to NYC I can believe there’s a lot of transplants and therefore cost of child care is higher but I’m shocked Massachusetts is #1.
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