[janalsncm]

For reference, I calculated that for the same per-day cost as I have in the US I could live in a five star hotel in Thailand. And when you factor in the cost of rent, international flights aren’t as expensive as you might think.

I see this less as how inexpensive things are elsewhere and more how excessively expensive they are in the US. In the Bay Area for example the housing stock is incredibly expensive but relatively low quality even compared with other US cities.