There’s no worse financial feeling than after paying the monthly bills , you say to yourself, “That’s what I have to live on for the rest of the month?” Your bank balance, of course, is determined by two things: the amount of money you bring in each month and the amount you ship out. And your financial stock won’t improve until you change one – or both.
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Ask your boss for a raise, pick up a side gig, find a new career with better pay altogether. Or think about moving to an area where higher wages, or lower housing costs, can help you to live comfortably on a lone income as a single person.
To help you figure out the cities in the South where you could – and could not – live comfortably on one income, GOBankingRates studied the top 50 cities by population in the region. The study resulted in telling numbers of where the salary needed to live comfortably as a single person far outpaces the median household income, or where you could carve an affordable lifestyle that includes paying the bills and having enough leftover for saving and investing. The cities are listed here by highest to lowest monthly cost of living, and in some cases, a city is listed twice to address areas that differ by ZIP code .