Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the U.S.: The state has 'really high home prices' and expensive goods, expert says
Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the U.S.: The state has 'really high home prices' and expensive goods, expert says
The most expensive states were found by analyzing the cost of living by The Council for Community and Economic Research.
Hawaii. A small group of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A place that probably has to import 90% of the goods and materials they demand. Does anyone really need an expert to tell them stuff is going to expensive there?
I read the headline and thought "no shit, they're an island thousands of miles off the coast."
I grew up in a mildly remote area off the usual trucking routes (2-lane highways connecting it north, south and east that washed out occasionally during winter storms) and prices were expensive even there because everything needed to be trucked in. I can only imagine the import costs in Hawaii with everything arriving by boat or air from overseas.