STOCKTON – Singles looking for a cheap place to live should consider Stockton, according to a recent study by finance website GOBankingRates. The city rated as the 13th cheapest place in the country for a single person among the nation’s largest metro areas.
The report surveyed the largest cities in the United States on the factors that have the most effect on a single person’s budget: clothing, dates, gym memberships and rent per square foot.
The cheapest city for a single person was Reno followed by Tucson, Arizona; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Tacoma, Washington and Indianapolis.
Among some of the findings in the report were nuggets like the fact that women living in Reno have the easiest time finding a man while single men in Tucson had the most luck finding a woman.
The city with the highest date-night costs was Washington, D.C. A dinner for two, a bottle of wine, two movie tickets and a 10-mile taxi ride will set a person back $166.
The most expensive city for a single person to live in was San Francisco followed by New York, Washington, D.C. and Honolulu.
“Movies and TV shows glamorize being single in a big city, but the unspoken factor is how incredibly expensive it can be,” GOBankingRates editor-in-chief Casey Bond said in a press release. “Costs run especially high in major cities like New York, Washington and San Francisco, where the cost of being fit and looking fashionable to attract a significant other are higher than most other parts of the country.”
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