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Best Places Net
  • Compare two U.S. cities by crime, housing, economic, education, health and climate factors
  • Compare climates in foreign countries
 
Best Places to Live (Money Magazine)
  • Ranks over 500 cities to live in by economy, health, crime, housing, education, weather, leisure, transit, arts
  • Arranged by ranking and alphabetically by city
  • City pages include a description and relocation information as well as statistical data on the quality of life and the cost of living
  • Interactive interface permits the user to create own best place
Cost of Living Index (American Chamber of Commerce)
  • Compares total costs between urban areas with component data ongroceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods
  • 100=average so 1.25 would indicate an urban area was 25% more expensive than average
  • Individual prices for various goods and services also given
  • Participation in the program is voluntary so not all urban areas are included
  • Doc.Cen. HD 6983 .A67
Defense Department Official Per Diem Rates
  • U.S. and foreign travel allowances for lodging and food
  • Arranged by state/city or country/city
  • Can be used, in part, to calculate comparative living costs
Domestic Per Diem Rates (General Services Administration)
  • Food and lodging rates for federal travel in the United States by city
  • Archived data back to 1995
 
EIU City Data (UMich Only)
  • Covers major cities in the U.S. and abroad
  • Provides cost of individual consumer products or services in local currency or U.S. or Euro dollars since 1990
  • Food products, alcohol and tobacco, rent, cost of maid service
EPI Data Zone
  • Current family budgets for 400 metropolitan areas by size/type of family 
How Far Will My Salary go? (CNN Money)
  • Will show the salary needed to obtain the same standard of living as well as changes in groceries, houskng, utilies, trasnportation and health care
Interarea Price Levels: An Experimental Methodology
  • Article by Bettina Aten in the September 2006 issue of the Monthly Labor Review
  • Compares price levels for 38 metropolitan areas in 2003 and 2004
 
Office of Personnel Management
  • Federal pay rates for U.S. cities searchable by GS level 
 
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