Tagged: rent

May 24, 2022

The Rent Is Now Really Too Damn High

Inflation just hit 7.9% recently, life is starting to get expensive. Regular Accidental FIRE readers know I constantly scour the internet for online tools that help show the variance of different elements of personal finance based on geography. It’s a...

geography and geoarbitrage

February 23, 2021

Is COVID Driving People From Cities?

Regular readers know my background is in geography and geographic information systems, and I’ve done a lot of mapping posts related to finance. I also have a pretty sweet geoarbitrage resources page with tons of tools in one place to...

finances

August 24, 2018

It Might Be A Good Time To Rent

I’ve written before about the affordability gap to housing in the U.S., breaking it down by state. Well things don’t seem to be getting easier for Americans in regards to buying an affordable home. Bloomberg has reported that Americans are...

geography and geoarbitrage

July 10, 2018

The Cost Of The Big Three Expenses By State

One of the key rules for smart money management is to focus on the “big three”. What are the big three? For the vast majority of households the three biggest expenses are housing, transportation, and food. If you save the...