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I checked the stats for my current city and I have to question just how their calculating their housing costs... It's not even close to what's actually on the market at the moment.

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I just checked, I live in Phoenix, in maricopa county, I’m pretty sure lumping together people living in Maricopa, Phoenix and the suburbs is not valid, you can’t commute across the county, it’s not a single market.

A bit ironic but Maricopa, AZ isn't actually part of Maricopa County; it's in Pinal County.

EDIT: Also worth noting that it's a ~45-60 minute commute from Maricopa to Boeing in Mesa. I make an equivalent commute every weekday--at interstate speeds for 60% of the route--and don't even leave my city proper. The commute isn't as unrealistic as you might think.

Maricopa to Boeing is basically 1/4 across the city. Try commuting from Maricopa to Discover at I-17 and the 202. That would be an hour and a half to two hours each way.

As stated above, this site was actually linked on HN in 2008, that's 11 years ago, I don't think they ever updated it with recent data.

Per this technical documentation link, the data is supposed to be current to 2018:

http://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-User-Guide-a...

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