The Best Budgeting Strategies for Living in an Expensive City
Everything is bigger in the city, especially the prices  October
24, 2013 RSS Feed Print Photo-illustration of a city using U.S.
bills as well as illustrations of conceptual higher denomination
bills  If you want to live as cheaply as possible, you are not
going to live in the big city.  According to the cost of living
index produced by the nonprofit Council for Community and
Economic Research, the most expensive metropolis in the country
is Manhattan (population: 1.6 million), where the cost of living
is 127.1 percent above the average, followed by Brooklyn, N.Y.
(71.4 percent over) and Honolulu (71 percent over). The least
expensive city has, as anyone might have guessed, fewer
residents: Harlingen, Texas (population: 64,849), which is 18.2
percent below the average cost of living.  So if you're living
among the skyscrapers, unless you have extremely deep pockets,
you are going to have to do some serious budgeting. Otherwise,
you might get used