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- fugeelama, on 10/08/2008, -1/+56***** you Forbes.com, I'm not clicking through one of your slideshows 150 times just to see if my city is on your list.
- Smiley09, on 10/08/2008, -1/+53Forbes + top 10 lists = fail
Forbes + top 150 lists = epic fail - CybrStuff, on 10/08/2008, -0/+39In Text: 150 Cheap Places To Live
You owe me one, Digg
Porch-Swing Communities:
Appleton, WI - 79k people, 213k metro, $256k house
Ashland, OR - 22k people, $320k house
Billings, MT - 95.2k people, 144.9k metro, $262k house
Bismarck, ND - 56k people, 95k metro, $245k house
Bloomington, IL - 67.5k people, 158k metro, $254k house
Bloomington, IN - 67.5k people, 178k metro, $241k house
Boise, ID - 186k people, 432k metro, $274k house
Bowling Green, OH - 30k people, $234k house
Cheyenne, WY - 54k people, 85.3k metro, $258k house
Columbia, MO - 85k people, 135k metro, $255k house
Corvallis, OR - 52.9k people, 79.4k metro, $295k house
Des Moines, IA - 199k people, 456k metro, $286k house
Dubuque, IA - 62k people, 91k metro, $249k house
Enid, OK - 46.4k people, 58k metro, $234k house
Fayetteville, AR - 58k people, 311.1k metro, $248k house
Fort Walton Beach, FL - 170k people, 178k metro, $312k house
Grand Forks, ND - 46k people, 96.4k metro, $234k house
Lafayette, IN - 61.3k people, 188.9k metro, $244k house
Lincoln, NE - 226k people, 250k metro, $266k house
Punta Gorda, FL - 14k people, $310k house
Rochester, MN - 72.7k people, 128k metro, $274k house
Sioux Falls, SD - 133k people, 178k metro, $256k house
Spokane, WA - 196k people, 418k metro, $252k house
St. Cloud, MN - 60.3k people, 174k metro, $285k house
Yarmouth, MA - 25k people, 229k metro, $456k house
Happy Hootervilles:
Baraboo, WI - 10.7k people, $248k house
Bardstown, KY - 10.5k people, $212k house
Bisbee, AZ - 6.7k people, $255k house
Douglas, GA - 10.6k people, $236k house
Durant, OK - 13.8k people, $196k house
East Stroudsburg, PA - 9.9k people, $314k house
Eufaula, AL - 13.8k people, $207k house
Fairhope, AL - 12.5k people, $245k house
French Lick, IN - 1.9k people, $233k house
Gillette, WY - 24.8k people, $248k house
Grants Pass, OR - 24.5k people, $320k house
Greencastle, IN - 10.5k people, $202k house
Hammond, LA - 17.6k people, $198k house
Hendersonville, NC - 10.4k people, $241k house
Lebanon, NH - 12.8k people
Liberal, KS - 20k people, $207k house
Marble Falls, TX - 5.3k people, $248k house
McCall, ID - 2.1k people, $304k house
Moorefield, WV - 2.4k people, $222k house
Moses Lake, WA - 2.4k people, $226k house
Nevada City, CA - 3k people, $498k house
Oxford, MS - 11.8k people, $235k house
Philadelphia, MS - 7.3k people, $219k house
Spring Hill, TN - 14k people, $214k house
Traverse City, MI - 14.5k people, $262k house
IQ Campuses:
Albany, NY - 876k people, $328k house
Ames, IA - 83k people, $286k house
Amherst, MA - 35k people, $412k house
Ann Arbor, MI - 579k people, $377k house
Athens, GA - 158k people, $274k house
Boulder, CO - 291k people, $539k house
Bozeman, MT - 75k people, $284k house
Champaign-Urbana, IL - 186k people, $272k house
Charlottesville, VA - 167k people, $395k house
Colombus, OH - 1.6M people, $252k house
Davis, CA - 65k people, $438k house
Eugene, OR - 322k people, $329k house
Fargo, ND - 178.2k people, $246k house
Hanover, NH - 11k people, $348k house
Huntsville, AL - 358k people, $232k house
Iowa City, IA - 74k people, $248k house
Ithaca, NY - 31k people, $253k house
Knoxville, TN - 712k people, $274k house
Lawrence, KS - 103k people, $247k house
Logan, UT - 48k people, $289k house
Madison, WI - 427k people, $268k house
Missoula, MT - 103k people, $281k house
Pocatello, ID - 83k people, $254k house
State College, PA - 136k people, $225k house
Terre Haute, IN - 168k people, $239k house
Steroid Cities:
Austin, TX - 1.2M people, $312k house
Birmingham, AL - 921k people, $275k house
Charlotte, NC - 1.6M people, $299k house
Colorado Springs, CO - 517k people, $324k house
Flagstaff, AZ - 127k people, $394k house
Fort Collins, CO - 266.7k people, $329k house
Fort Worth, TX - 1.8M people, $242k house
Fresno, CA - 983k people, $377k house
Gainesville, FL - 224k people, $285k house
Greeley, CO - 211k people, $312k house
Greenville, NC - 138.7k people, $238k house
Jackson, TN - 110.4k people, $243k house
Laredo, TX - 260k people, $233k house
Las Vegas, NV - 1.6M people, $310k house
McAllen, TX - 569k people, $248k house
Myrtle Beach, SC - 210.8k people, $263k house
Naples, FL - 251k people, $498k house
Orlando, FL - 1.8M people, $303k house
Phoenix, AZ - 3.6M people, $329k house
Provo, UT - 369k people, $329k house
Reno, NV - 340k people, $470k house
Tucson, AZ - 844k people, $325k house
Wilmington, NC - 249k people, $302k house
Winston-Salem, NC - 1.3M people, $263k house
Yuma, AZ - 160k people, $308k house
Bohemian Bargains:
Baltimore, MD - 651k people, 2.6M metro, $369k house
Buffalo, NY - 293k people, 1.1M metro, $268k house
Cincinnati, OH - 292k people, 2M metro, $259k house
Cleveland, OH - 478k people, 2.3M metro, $255k house
Dayton, OH - 166.1k people, 945k metro, $256k house
Denver, CO - 572k people, 2.4M metro, $361k house
Grand Rapids, MI - 198k people, 1.2M metro, $274k house
Hartford, CT - 136k people, 1.1M metro, $312k house
Indianapolis, IN - 782k people, 1.7M metro, $264k house
Kansas City, MO - 442k people, 1.8M metro, $275k house
Louisville, KY - 699k people, 1M metro, $248k house
Memphis, TN - 646k people, 1.1M metro, $257k house
Miami, FL - 376k people, 2.2M metro, $314k house
Milwaukee, WI - 597k people, 1.5M metro, $332k house
Nashville, TN - 545k people, 1.2M metro, $248k house
Pittsburgh, PA - 335k people, 2.4M metro, $288k house
Portland, OR - 529k people, 1.9M metro, $394k house
Providence, RI - 176k people, 963k metro, $318k house
Raleigh, NC - 276k people, 1.2M metro, $298k house
Rochester, NY - 215k people, 1.1M metro, $252k house
Sacramento, CA - 426k people, 1.6M metro, $349k house
St. Louis, MO - 348k people, 2.6M metro, $247k house
St. Paul, MN - 269k people, 2.7M metro, $397k house
Tampa, FL - 318k people, 2.4M metro, $284k house
Wichita, KS - 355k people, 549.8k metro, $233k house
Telecommuting Heavens:
Albuquerque, NM - 449k people, $255k house
Anacortes, WA - 15.1k people, $325k house
Angel Fire, NM - 300 people, $396k house
Astoria, OR - 36.3k people, $298k house
Bend, OR - 52k people, $381k house
Blacksburg, VA - 39.4k people, 241k metro, $254k house
Brainerd, MN - 13.3k people, $276k house
Branson, MO - 7k people, $212k house
Burlington, VT - 39k people, $348k house
Clemson, SC - 12k people, $268k house
Durango, CO - 14k people, $273k house
Freeport, ME - 7.8k people, $331k house
Gatlinburg, TN - 3.8k people, $249k house
Hilton Head, SC - 34k people, $342k house
Hot Springs, AR - 36k people, $232k house
Mariposa, CA - 1.8k people, $563k house
Michigan City, IN - 32.9k people, $314k house
Moab, UT - 5k people, $364k house
Sandpoint, ID - 6.8k people, 32k metro, $287k house
Savannah, GA - 127.7k people, $288k house
Sedona, AZ - 10k people, $499k house
Sisters, OR - 959 people, $320k house
Stockbridge, MA - 2.3k people, $384k house
White Sulphur Springs, WV - 2.4k people, $292k house
Whitefish, MT - 4.5k people, $278k house - nahsrocketeer75, on 10/07/2008, -1/+19Interesting concept ... Now if only I could find someone willing to buy my house.
- StevenBullen, on 10/08/2008, -0/+15Forbes site is *****!
- smacksaw, on 10/08/2008, -0/+12MediaSight you almost sound like a paid submitter. You get bonus negative points because it's Forbes.com
Anyone who cared about Digg and Diggers would never submit Forbes.com - snakcs, on 10/08/2008, -4/+15The internet needs less lists.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9Baltimore? Seriously?
- TonyTheTerrible, on 10/08/2008, -0/+9wow, this is probably the most scrambled up over advertised and under planned out website ive seen. burried from lack of being about to navigate to the article.
- metapop, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10buried for being only in the united states. want to live extremely cheaply? move overseas. i used to pay $350 rent in one of the most beautiful cities in the world- budapest, hungary. the dollar sucks now and things are a bit more expensive, but it's a great big world outside of the united states.
- palehorse864, on 10/08/2008, -1/+10And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack...
- jfujita, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9Someone post a list. No way I'm clicking 150 times
- charm803, on 10/08/2008, -0/+7Their slideshows need to be more streamlined, they annoy me.
- Koushiro, on 10/08/2008, -1/+8Soooo...the article basically says move to the midwest or maybe florida?
- doublefelix, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6This is not my beautiful house.....
- Lewie, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6No kidding, all those places look pretty average to me. I was expecting places like Costa Rica where you can live like a king on our average salary.
Buried as lame. - Exekutor, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6Only complaints on the comments, but the page still hits the frontpage. Who the ***** is digging this up!!!!
***** FORBES!!! - palehorse864, on 10/08/2008, -1/+7http://www.website1000.com/images/KenmoreEliteComp ...
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5I swear these types of abmonations are thought up by clever web designers who's work is evaluated by the number of page views. There can be no other reason.
- TheFunnyDigger, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Why was number 1 my sisters house.
Oh....yeah. - z28com, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Cheap places to live my ass. Tons of the prices of the homes are like 6 to 10x the average person's salary! A home should not be more than 3x your annual salary. If it is, you're living beyond your means.
- circle34, on 10/08/2008, -1/+5Forbes = Bury
- ericmerrill, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4I live in my sister's house too!
...oh...you were joking?
Yeah. Yeah me too... - a3leggedmidgit, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4ok, so not only is the the list complete fail for having to click through 150 different goddamn ones, but the sources are really really outdated. Normally it wouldn't matter so much, but I see a bunch of references to stuff in 2004. A lot of bad ***** has happened to this country since then that has affected the housing market. You fail, Forbes magazine.
- hiro, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4*fewer*
- johanm, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4anyone who suggests that anyone should live in Fresno CA needs to kill themselves
- Lewie, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3I've always said if I were homeless, I'd live in a refrigerator box and be King of the Hobos!
- ericmerrill, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Absolutely.
- psykiv, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Forbes? 150? How the hell did this even make front page?
- Xcel, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Hey my city is on the list! Fort Walton Beach, FL.
And I thought we were in the middle of ***** Florida and nobody knows about us. - m0llusk, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4This is Forbes who are supposed to understand some basic economics, and yet they do not understand that these places are cheap because they are not desirable. Great places to live get expensive because of the competition to be there.
- metapop, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3do you flip burgers for a living? i wouldn't recommend living in india. for the rest of us who use computers on a daily basis, it's a bit easier to imagine working from home with an internet connection being our commute.
- m00nmaster, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3And you may say to yourself "My God, what have I done?"
- rajulkabir, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Exactly. This article totally missed the boat. By leaving the US entirely you can get so much better quality of life at a fraction of the cost. Between VoIP and the net, my clients don't even know where I am. Sending a Fedex envelope to the USA from here costs US$20, but that's a small price to pay considering my food and housing costs are about 1/4 what I would pay in an American city. Not to mention better nightlife (other than New York, there is basically no nightlife in the USA compared to other, more happening countries) and the ready proximity of some of the world's best beaches.
- HiddenCanuck, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Man i was hoping they'd show me which developing country i could live like a king in, not which state I could buy a 300k house in.
- linagee, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2You're right. It is rather a happy feeling to find there are cheaper places to live.
- cowman80i9, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2actually i have, in 2
- ryanonfire, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2If everyone complains about how crap clicking 150s times through a slide show then they should change it. customerservice@forbes.net
- floppytaco, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2This article's title was a bit misleading as $200,000 to $400,000 for a house is not what many would consider cheap living..
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -2/+4Yes, there are cheaper places to live.
You get what you pay for.
Cheap = snow and creationists. - DeusNova, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Tampa shouldn't have been on this list. The metro area is horrible. Ybor is kind of dangerous. We have the worst traffic ever.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Good mix of places I never want to live in and places that don't belong on that list.
Nevada City? ***** you, Forbes. - fucter, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2thank you
- SillyRabbits, on 10/08/2008, -4/+6It just makes you look stupid when you make comments like that. You've obviously never spent time in any of those cities.
- peaceninja, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2digg this man up
- riptor666, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1It'd be much more effective to just save up for a decade or so and then go to a country where you can live like a king for cheap and retire there.
- konklarii, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1A quarter-million and up house is cheap? No wonder we're in so much trouble.
- Lewie, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I was just thinking about retirement. If you have a $500k nest egg, living in E. Europe or Costa Rica would probably be cheaper and more enjoyable.
- Luciapalooza, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1finally Kansas City, MO gets some love...usually they praise ***** Overland Park, KS as an ideal place to live
- socialrebel, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1forbes schmorbes.
it's a good idea to move inland to take advantage of lower house prices and utilize renewable energy. think of the cost savings.... we would be spending the money saved on things we want, instead of bitching about how it's all going to the expensive mortgage on your $1.4 million home and the couple of BMW's in the driveway. -
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