Saturday, March 29th, 2008
TRIANGLE - MOST EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE IN NORTH CAROLINA
Triangle, North Carolina. Wake County Cost of Living: A Wake County family needs $50,435 annually to cover basic needs. The statewide figure is $41,184. That’s nearly double the amount of the federal poverty threshold for a family of four. A living wage was calculated for each county in North Carolina by the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center. Wake County includes Raleigh, Cary and Wake Forest. Orange County includes Chapel Hill. Durham County includes Durham. Mechlenburg County includes Charlotte.
Rank Location 1 Parent/1 Child 1 Par/2 Ch 2 Par/2 Ch 2 Par/3 Ch
NC $31,067 $37,509 $42,841 $53,304
1 Wake Co. $38,699 $47,103 $51,856 $64,082
2 Orange Co. $36,868 $46,048 $50,180 $63,928
3 Durham Co. $35,555 $43,728 $47,775 $60,738
5 Mecklenburg Co. $34,141 $41,750 $46,402 $57,891
Hello tax payers of Wake County and U.S.A. Are you out there? Do you know or care what your elected officials, or those you may soon be voting for, want to do that will effect your pocket book? If some of this sounds like a repeat of a recent blog the beat goes on! In 2006 Raleigh’s City Councel voted to raise impact fees by 72%! Now that want to double that! What does your next candidate for President want to do? How much more are you going to be paying for gas? How much more are you going to be paying for food? How much more are you going to be paying for home, auto, and other forms of insurance? How much more are you going to be paying for health insurance (if you have any) for how much less in the way items covered? How much more are you going to be paying for utilities? How much more are you going to have to pay to send your children to college? How much more is it going to cost you to take a vacation (if you can afford to take one)? Add your own list to this. If you don’t ask these questions of your existing and future officials who will?
John Fish (919) 696-3474 Email: Marvmax@mindspring.com Website: www.JohnFish.com
