[rosseloh]

>However, even $27k in Oklahoma would be enough to afford a small house in the suburbs of a city.

Sounds like I need to move to Oklahoma... I'm making about $44k in rural South Dakota but with the way housing prices have been around here the last few years, I am nowhere near being able to comfortably afford a mortgage (I can afford one, for a cheap, old, needs-a-lot-of-TLC-or-30-miles-out-of-town house, but not while also affording much else).

[cwhiz]

I have friends who live there and go on and on about the cheap cost of living. I’ve visited and it wasn’t a place I wanted to live. To each their own. It does seem absurdly cheap.