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$100,000 in Brooklyn, $83,394 in Cheyenne?

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Live cheaply in Cheyenne, where The Wrangler is their Barneys.

We love Brooklyn as much as the next web site and probably more, but who doesn’t have some kind of escaape fantasy of picking up and heading to, say, Cheyenne, Wyoming? And what does it take to afford a town like that?

CNN.com answers that question with a totally addictive calculator that lets you compare how much you’d have to earn in another American city to maintain your current lifestyle. If you now make $100,000 a year (shouldn’t you be on Richlyn.com instead?) you’d need to pull in only $83,394 a year in Cheyenne. (They don’t have a Fairway, FYI.) How about some other cities? Read the rest of this entry ยป