652-Cost of Living vs. Quality of Life (with an international flair)
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
How do you balance the Costs of Living with your Quality of Life when you're thinking about moving out of your home country?
Let's discuss!
Joshua
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:42.0 | Today in the show we're going to talk about the cost of living |
| 0:45.0 | versus quality of life |
| 0:48.0 | with an international flare. |
| 0:50.0 | I received today's show topic |
| 0:52.0 | when I was recently trolling about on Twitter asking |
| 0:54.3 | listeners what they would like to hear me talk about and one listener wrote to me and said basically |
| 0:59.4 | talk about the cost of living versus the quality of life in an international context. |
| 1:04.0 | I thought this is a useful and interesting topic, partly because it is something that I am living, |
| 1:11.2 | am in the middle of considering and working my way through in different things, but it's something that I've also thought a lot about and I think it has application even outside of an international context. Because in many ways these factors |
| 1:26.0 | comparing the cost of living versus the quality of life, these are factors that we |
| 1:31.0 | all have to consider in our own unique context. |
| 1:35.0 | Even if you're considering, should I live in downtown Atlanta or in the suburbs? |
| 1:41.0 | Well, you're going to talk about the cost of living versus the quality of life. Should I live in Kansas or |
| 1:46.1 | should I live in California? You're going to talk about the cost of living versus the quality of life. |
| 1:51.3 | And these factors are sometimes difficult to talk about because |
| 1:55.2 | they're very subjective. Both of these are very subjective. Obviously the quality of life is more subjective than cost of living because we can put dollars and sense to the costs |
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