Again, it appears like it is more expensive because the numbers are different. So to a visitor, it’ll look like they’re paying more for food, etc. But locals are earning more in comparison, but they also spend more bc numbers are higher. Percentage wise of your income, you end up spending (cntd)
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So if you look at only the numbers, it’ll look like someone in the US is earning more. But they’re also spending more bc the numbers (not just cost of living) are higher. They could be (and usually are) spending a similar percentage of their (cntd)
Put it this way: player A makes $125k in the US when they’d make maybe £65k in the UK. They’d look at that and think, ‘wow, I can make lots more money in the US, salaries are higher, I should move there!’ But what they’re not factoring in is that a grocery bill may have been £65 in (cntd)
So the draw that Tim discussed originally is deceptive in some ways, in that players can think they’re earning more than they would in the UK but they don’t know about the higher living numbers until they arrive. Whether or not that affects the (cntd)