{"id":3444,"date":"2024-06-26T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T02:32:02","slug":"cost-of-living-in-some-countries-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/06\/26\/cost-of-living-in-some-countries-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living in some countries lower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is often because of population demographics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/spain-best-european-country-cost-of-living-report-8558850\">Spain Was Just Named the Best European Country for Cost of Living (travelandleisure.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When your country&#8217;s population is decreasing, homes become surplus &#8211; lacking demand, they do not sell. Hence, the media meme of buying 1 euro old homes in Italy and sometimes other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decreasing population &#8211; and decreasing demand &#8211; leads to lower prices for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S., by comparison, is set up for constant growth. As we have fewer babies, we ramp up immigration. Population growth will remain relatively constant for some time to come; by 2040, 100% of U.S. population growth will come from immigration as births &#8211; deaths becomes a negative number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an interesting summary of the cost of living by U.S. state compared to European countries: <a href=\"https:\/\/philomathnews.com\/how-does-the-cost-of-living-in-each-us-state-compare-to-the-nations-of-europe\/\">How does the cost of living in each US state compare to the nations of Europe? &#8211; Philomath News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is often because of population demographics: Spain Was Just Named the Best European Country for Cost of Living (travelandleisure.com) When your country&#8217;s population is decreasing, homes become surplus &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}