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Chicago - poor man's New York
Phoenix - poor man's Los Angeles
Seattle - poor man's San Francisco
San Juan, PR - poor man's Honolulu
Memphis - poor man's Nashville
St Louis - poor man's Chicago
Wichita - poor man's Oklahoma City
Albuquerque - poor man's Phoenix
San Juan poor mans Honolulu? What the hell is wrong with you?
Houston is cheaper than Dallas and the average salaries are almost identical.
It would actually be more accurate to say Houston is a poor mans Dallas but in reality neither city is a poor mans version of the other city.
Except this isn’t how it’s measured. San Francisco’s COL is excruciatingly higher than LA’s (city proper alone, it’s twice as much). Yet it would be dumb to say LA is the cheap version of SF. Poor man’s isn’t a literal term, it’s a term saying where you get similar things but less of it. And neither is the case for eachother. I wouldn’t say any major city is the cheap version of the other.
I'm probably going to get a ton of hate or weird looks for these, but here it goes
Poor man's version's
The old Southwest
Phoenix>Tucson> Albuquerque
Flashy Western metropolises
Los Angeles> Dallas> Las Vegas
Inland west coast water cities
Seattle > Portland > Sacramento > Reno
Western Mountain centric cities
Denver > Salt lake City > Fresno > El Paso
The socal fringes
Inland San Diego> Inland empire> Palmdale/lancaster> Bakersfield
Medium sized interior west metros
Boise>Provo>Spokane
My only contingency would be ranking Fresno above El Paso. A significant portion of El Paso's status is left out due to being in a different country. I also like your update on Boise, Provo, Spokane. Provo has much to be proud of these days.
Portland, Oregon
Las Vegas
Miami
Dallas
Austin
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
What poor man version of these cities ?
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