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East Lansing, MI vs New York, NY

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Is it cheaper to live in New York or is it cheaper to live in East Lansing?
- New York is 106.3% more expensive than East Lansing.

Which city has more affordable housing, New York or East Lansing?
- New York housing costs are 164.5% more expensive than East Lansing housing costs.

Is Health Care more affordable in East Lansing or is Health Care more affordable in New York.
- Health related expenses are 45.2% more in New York.
 East Lansing, MINew York, NYUnited States
 Overall  Unlock172.5100
 Food & Groceries95.6  Unlock100
 Health  Unlock127.6100
 Housing84.8  Unlock100
 Median Home Cost  Unlock$677,200$338,100
 Utilities97  Unlock100
 Transportation  Unlock181.1100
 Miscellaneous107.9  Unlock100
100 = National Average (Below 100 means cheaper than the US average. Above 100 means more expensive.)
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Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 17 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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Reviews for New York    330 Reviews

I'm from the South and the perception I had was that New York was a filthy slum full of sketchy people and crime. I visited it, and it's actually on the other end of the  More

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New York City is crazy Great there are to many things to do and see in NYC for anyone to ever complain about the city other than most Of the population with stacked on  More

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Over 4 years ago

filthy. deplorable. weak character. the people of new york aren't classy, they're not even decent. rude, obnoxious, arrogant, and smug, and to make it all worse there's  More

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