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From the breakdown provided by the calculator, it looks like the big differentiator is housing costs (369 vs 250). My guess would be that they are using housing data for places like Queens/Brooklyn, where housing can be considerably cheaper than Manhattan, but are not considering places like South San Francisco, Colma, etc. when calculating the housing prices for San Francisco.



Queens / Brooklyn (other than Williamsburg) can be orders of magnitude cheaper than Manhattan.

Colma / South SF / Oakland are probably 30% cheaper than SF. Still cheaper, but not overwhelmingly so.




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