{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/umavadher-com\/2026\/09\/03\/massachusetts-tops-the-cost-to-live-ranking\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:00:00","slug":"massachusetts-tops-the-cost-to-live-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/massachusetts-tops-the-cost-to-live-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Tops the Cost-to-Live Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/uma-vadher\/mass-expensive-families-remotion-videos-5d2a\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Massachusetts ranked as the nation&#039;s most expensive state for a family of four to live comfortably, holding that spot for the second straight year.<br \/>\nThe required annual income for a Massachusetts family of four reached $329.6K, up from $313.7K yearly under the budgeting formula used in the study.<br \/>\nFor single people, Massachusetts ranked second nationwide, with comfortable living requiring $127.2K a year for one person, a yearly increase of \u21915.9%.<br \/>\nThe benchmark started with minimum basic needs for full-time workers, then applied a standard budget rule dividing income among essentials, discretionary spending, and savings.<br \/>\nThat placed Massachusetts at the top of the family ranking and near the top for singles, underscoring how much income households needed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts ranked as the nation&#039;s most expensive state for a family of four to live comfortably, holding that spot for the second straight year. The required annual income for a Massachusetts family of four reached $329.6K, up from $313.7K yearly under the budgeting formula used in the study. For single people, Massachusetts ranked second nationwide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}