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The cost of life in somewhere expensive like a lot of urban areas in the United States can be absolutely startling. Especially when you think of cost in terms of hours-of-work-at-my-wage units. Wow. This Apple laptop charger cost me 5 and a half hours of post-tax income. This reminds me of a joke. A comic relates having gone to a professional baseball game and finding out, The next day I'm at my 8 year old niece's dance recital. And I thought, "I would pay a hundred dollars for a drink."Beers cost $10 a can at the stadium. Ten bucks! I thought to myself, "I would never pay ten bucks for a drink."