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Looking for an accurate Cost of Living (COLA) calculator

Looking for an accurate Cost of Living (COLA) calculator

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Anonymous · · 5 replies

Has anyone found a relatively accurate Cost of Living Calculator for comparing the cost of the city your are currently living in to another city? I've tried bestplaces.net, Nerd Wallet COLA calculator, and smartasset.com and all are giving me wildly different numbers.

Ideally the calculator would include taxes in its comparisons and include smaller metro areas in it's dataset. I'm open to exploring free and paid options.

In payment for all your great insights, I offer up one fun resource I've found while digging into this stuff, Harvard Growth Lab’s Urban Economy Navigator: Metroverse | Harvard Growth Lab

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BostonFI

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