The best places are likely the ones where you can find a job, earn a good salary and buy a nice home.
The top 15 cities in America where you can live like royalty on a $60,000 salary
Looking to do better in the year ahead? That may simply boil down to where you choose to live.
The best places are likely the ones where you can find a job, earn a good salary and buy a nice home. In a 2016 report, job-hunting site Glassdoor calculated the top spots where your pay will go furthest, based on salaries and home values. The jobs site came up with a cost of living ratio — a city’s median base salary divided by its median home value. (A higher ratio number is better.)
Noticeably missing are some of America’s biggest cities. While you can certainly earn more in hubs like New York and San Francisco, fewer people can afford to buy a house or an apartment there.
Here are the top 15 places where an average paycheck goes a very long way and the quality of life is great (even without a view of the Golden Gate).
15. Atlanta
Cost of living ratio: 37%
Median base salary: $60,000
Median home value: $163,000
Number of open jobs: 90,739
14. Columbus, Ohio
Cost of living ratio: 37%
Median base salary: $57,000
Median home value: $154,600
Number of open jobs: 30,728
13. Oklahoma City
Cost of living ratio: 38%
Median base salary: $50,000.
Source:https://www.yahoo.com/
