In the United States, calculating the cost of living includes expenses for housing, shopping, utilities, transportation, health care, and other services. So here are the 10 cheapest and most expensive cities in the United States.
Not so long ago, the famous personal finance site kiplinger.com took stock of the top 10 cities with the lowest cost of living in the United States. The ranking is based on the Community and Economic Research Council's cost of living comparison of 288 cities with populations over 50,000.
The Total Cost of Living Index score is 100. The lower the score, the lower the cost of living. Let’s take a look together below.
10. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Cost of living index: 15.5% lower than the U.S. average
City population: 631,346
< p> Median household income: $47,779Median home value: $138,600
Unemployment rate: 4.2%
9. Arkansas
Cost of living index: 15.6% below the U.S. average p>
City population: 64,980
< p> Median household income: $47,504Median home value: $160,400
Unemployment rate: 3.5%
8. Jonesboro, Arkansas
Cost of living: 15.9% below the U.S. averagep>
City population: 73,907
Median household income: $41,688
Median home value: $141,400
Unemployment rate: 3.4%
< strong>7. Norman, Oklahoma
Cost of living index: 16.2% lower than the U.S. average
City population: 120,284
Median household income: $51,491
Median home value: $160,100
Unemployment rate: 3.5%
< strong> 6. Indianapolis, Indiana
Cost of living index: 16.2% below the U.S. average
Urban population: 853.17.3
Median household income: 41 $987
Median home value: $118,300
Unemployment rate: 4.0%
5. , Tennessee
Cost of living index: 16.3% below the U.S. average
City population: 185,291
Median household income: $34,226
Median home value: $118,300
Unemployment rate: 4.5%
4. Memphis, Tennessee
Cost Living Index: 17% below the U.S. average
City Population: 655,770
Median Income Household Value: $36,445
Median Home Value: $94,000
Unemployment Rate: 5.3%
3 Kalamazoo, Michigan
Cost of living index: 20% lower than the U.S. average
Urban population: 76,041 people
Media incomen of households: $33,009
Median home value: $96,600
Unemployment rate: 4.2%
2. Harlingen, Texas
Cost of living index: 20.6% lower than the U.S. average
Urban population: 65,774
p>Median household income: $34,466
Median home value: $80,600
Unemployment rate: 7.2%
1. McAllen, Texas
Cost of living index: 23.7% lower than the U.S. average
Urban population: 140,269
Income median household: $44,254
Median home value: $115,400
Unemployment rate: 7.8%
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After reading the top 10 lowest cost of living cities in the United States, let's take a look at the top 10 most expensive cities in the United States.
Business Insider ranked American life in 2016 by comparing and pesting the prices of 160 goods or services, including food consumption, clothing consumption, daily necessities, utility bills, rent, school fees, etc. top ten most expensive cities for your reference.
1. New York, N.Y.
2 Los Angeles, California
3. Chicago, Illinois (Chicago, Illinois)
4. Minneapolis, Minnesota
5. Washington, DC (Washington, DC)
6 Houston, Texas
7. San Francisco, California
8. Seattle, Washington
9 Honolulu, Hawaii
10 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Based on current technical level. , if it does not include hidden costs, hydropower is the most economical;
If hidden costs are included, nuclear power is the lowest.
On the surface, hydropower seems to be very economical, but in fact, the construction of a hydropower plant has considerable economic benefitswill submerge a considerable area of arable land and could cause the collapse of some mountains, landslides, changes in the stress of the earth's crust and, to some extent, impacts on the climate of the basin... These hidden costs are not borne by the promoters of hydroelectric power plants, but shared by the whole of society.
As for the “energy recovery” mentioned on the second floor, it is actually the most expensive among so many types of electricity production.
Although what is burned is waste, it is waste, but its combustion value is low and its scale is limited in a city. Moreover, in the current situation of misclassification of waste, treatment before combustion is very difficult; long. This uses a lot of energy; at the same time, the process of transporting waste from all directions of the city not only consumesent of transport resources, but also consumes a lot of energy... All this is “paved” with money. , so the cost is not low at all.
In terms of environmental protection, waste-to-energy plants should pay attention to the temperature at which waste is burned.
If the combustion temperature is too low, the exhaust gas will contain a large amount of dioxins.
In order to avoid dioxinTo produce, the combustion temperature of waste should be above 900℃, or even up to 1200℃!
Such a high combustion temperature is difficult to form in a general waste incinerator and requires the use of special advanced technology. As a result, the operating costs of the waste power plant have increased...