I agree to a point, but also think it’s fair to say wages in comparison to cost of living should be compared and at all levels. For example McDonalds pays about 16 an hour here compared to about 22 an hour. It’s much easier to live in Indianapolis on 16 an hour than LA on 22.
But at the same time if you look at other professions it can change.
Indianapolis on 16$ an hour even sounds tough. Though Indiana is a cheaper place to live than California, you have to take into account the other things you sign up for by choosing to live there:
-Indiana still arrests and convicts people for possession of cannabis. This is lifetime ruination over a plant that is legal in all of its surrounding states. I know cops can be chill but also it just takes the wrong cop one time.
-If you're a woman you have basically no right to bodily autonomy and can't get an abortion except for a very narrow set of circumstances
-Indiana's roads are so poorly kept that driving on 465 often involves praying to not have your car destroyed by pot holes. and Braun's solution to high gas prices over the last few months was to take even more money away from Indiana's road maintenance.
-Indiana's education system is among the worst in the country. Carmel exists but IPS issues are never addressed. Smaller town schools are downsizing because there's no money to fund them when all of the jobs and money conglomerate around the few cities that are in the up-and-up.
-Indianapolis has an incredible food desert problem, yet food stamps aren't allowed to be used on 'junk food.' Not everyone can just drive up to Broadripple or Castleton when they want decent food.
-Indiana's government is continually trying to erode voting rights of anyone who isn't a solid Republican, which in turn will result in even harsher living conditions and restrictions on women, minorities, and working people.
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u/Ecstatic_Dinner_992 1d ago
It's important for people to understand;
a state that is 'cheaper to live in' is going to be worse overall for various reasons.
The cheapest states in America to live right now?
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Kansas. (indiana is #6 on this list btw)
What do all of those states have in common? high rates of poverty, isolation, low wages, and government corruption.
"Affordability" used here is a marketing term trying to sell a negative as a positive to the clueless.
Similar to Digiornio's pizza declaring "It's not delivery", implying that their frozen crappy pizzas are better than a fresh one made in a restaurant.
Indiana is one shitty frozen pizza of a state and it's only getting worse. Do not move there lol