The 10 Cheapest Cities in America

Date: Sep 13 2012

Filed under: Personal Finance, Lifestyle

Cheap citiesBy Jill Krasny

Southern metros ruled the Community of Economic Research’s top 10 list of cheapest cities this quarter, with Harlingen, Texas being the cheapest of them all.

“It’s an area where there’s plenty of room,” says Dean Frutiger, the project manager and economist who worked on the Cost of Living Index. “If your housing is more expensive, that’s going to affect everything.”

No wonder the little city scored so well on COLI’s survey (81.6 on an index of 100). In Harlingen, a…

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