The last few years have been difficult financially for many people around the nation. Being able to understand the things that impact the cost of living, such as those around your home, is a key thing you need to know when deciding where to live.
Thanks to tariffs, inflation, and an unstable national economic policy, the everyday cost of things like housing, supplies, and taxes has been changing significantly. When that happens, it causes people to have to make difficult choices to decide how much money they need to live comfortability in an area.
Recently, there has been a pretty viral essay that has been floating around the internets saying that you should be considered poor if you make less than $140,000 per year. Given that the incomes in places like Buffalo are way lower than that, it makes you wonder how much money you need to be comfortable here.
How Is Buffalo’s Cost of Living?
According to Forbes, the cost of living in Buffalo and Western New York is approximately 10% below the national average. This means that it’s generally cheaper to live in Buffalo as it has lower costs of goods, services, rent, utilities, and food when compared to the national average…