| | Vallejo, CA | Richmond, CA | United States |
| Overall | 134.3 | 174.9 | 100 |
| Food & Groceries | 107.9 | 108.6 | 100 |
| Health | 112.3 | 121.1 | 100 |
| Housing | 171.2 | 249.7 | 100 |
| Median Home Cost | $502,500 | $615,900 | $338,100 |
| Utilities | 9,940.0% | 8,970.0% | 10,000.0% |
| Transportation | 123.7 | 133.2 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous | 124.5 | 157.9 | 100 |
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If you move to Vallejo, you will quickly realize that you're paying a lot of money to live in well-polished squalor.
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I would love to live in a place where there are not fireworks all year round or gunshots every night. Police are understaffed and overworked and this is coming from a More
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I've lived in Richmond since 2014. I find that for proximity to the rest of the East Bay, Marin county, and San Francisco it's a tremendous location. We moved here from More
Grown up around all my life, and lived for the past 3 years. Diverse in the worst kinda way (the way that will get you robbed or assaulted). The epicenter of the More
I've lived here for more than half of my life, and never want to leave. The weather is nearly perfect. The population is very racially diverse and people for the most More
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