Miami Surpasses New York in Cost of Living While Attracting Billionaires
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
MIAMI – For the first time, the cost of living in Miami has surpassed that of New York due to rising housing and food prices, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). This trend is intensifying as billionaires relocate to South Florida. The BEA's recently released regional price parity index ranks the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area at 114.15 points for 2024, exceeding the metropolitan areas of New York (112.56) and Los Angeles (113.56), and only trailing San Francisco (115.61). This scale measures the relative prices of housing, food, goods, and services, using a baseline score of 100 for the national average in the United States, meaning that surpassing this threshold indicates that costs in the city are above the average.
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