Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs

Re:Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star genera... by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:57PM (#17388592)

Why would you care about the ratio?

Imagine that salary in San Francisco is $9000 / month and cost of living is $7000 / month. The ratio of salary : cost of living is 1.286.

Imagine salary in Grand Rapids is $3000 / month and the cost of living is $2000 / month. The ratio has "improved" to 1.5, but the more important figure of (income - expenses) has fallen in half.

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Re:Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star genera... by mac01021 on Sunday June 24, 2018 @07:06PM (#17388860)

I don't think the GP meant to ask about the ratio. The slash was probably just shorthand for "and".

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Re:Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star genera... by thaumasiotes on Sunday June 24, 2018 @07:34PM (#17388955)

I wasn't looking at the slash so much as the question "No surprise that both will be a lot lower in Grand Rapids, but I'm wondering how the ratio looks".

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Re:Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star genera... by jsweojtj on Sunday June 24, 2018 @09:01PM (#17389244)

There are four numbers to compare, salary_SF, salary_GR, living_cost_SF, living_cost_GR, and two obvious ratios you could take. You chose to divide salary/living_cost for each, but you could also divide salary_SF/salary_GR for ratio_1 and living_cost_SF/living_cost_GR for ratio_2.

So, you might find that it's a 50% lower salary, and an 80% lower living cost. That would be informative.

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