Not exact matches
It's actually 27 percent cheaper to raise a child in a
rural area than in an urban
area in the Northeast, mostly due to the lower
costs of housing and child care.
The
cost of living is lower in most
rural areas than in most urban
areas, although part of that lower
cost of living is attributable to subsidies of
rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban
areas.
More people typically translates into more risks for insurance companies (this is why insurance
costs in cities are generally far higher
than rates in
rural areas).
Gas
costs a bit more
than average in these
rural areas.
As one might expect, it
costs city drivers a bit more for car insurance
than those in
rural areas.
For example, a single parent with a college - bound teen living in a region with a high
cost of living — such as New York — will need more term life insurance coverage
than a two - income household with very young children in a
rural area.
Statistics indicate that cars driven in big cities require more repairs and thus
cost more to insure
than cars driven primarily on the highway or in more
rural areas.
Basically insuring a car in urban
areas where accidents are more likely to occur would
cost more
than insuring a vehicle in
rural areas.
However, qualitative research has shown, that adolescents living in non-metropolitan (regional /
rural)
areas are more likely
than metropolitan - living adolescents to report limited opportunities (facilities, types of activities, number of teams), proximity to facilities, and
cost and availability of transport, as barriers to participation [27, 29, 30, 34].
The vans are seen as a more
cost - effective way
than branch offices to extend the agency's programs to underserved
rural areas, Taylor says.
Local Market Monitor, a North Carolina - based information organization that tracks home
costs and monetary components in more
than 300 lodging markets, screened the 100 biggest Metropolitan Statistical
Area and Divisions (topographical assignments utilized by the U.S. Statistics Bureau to depict a center city and its encompassing
rural areas), all with populaces of no less
than 600,000, for qualities that make for good real estate investing ventures.