It’s getting more and more expensive—twice as fast as the national average—to live around the Puget Sound:
Consumer prices in the Puget Sound area increased 1.3 percent over January and February – almost double the rate of inflation nationally.
Housing prices, up 2.4 percent, led the increases in the Tacoma-Bremerton-Seattle area, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Grocery prices were up 1 percent in the two-month period, while alcoholic beverages poured a 3 percent increase.
If only our wages were going up twice as fast as the national average, too. Heck, I think we’d be in okay shape if our wages were going up at all.
(News Tribune Staff, Tacoma News Tribune, 03.17.2006)