15. North Carolina
Annual Salary: $78,910
Cost of living index: 93.9
Available jobs: 490
When looking for a place to stay, the cost of living should play high importance. North Carolina’s cost of living is very livable, even when the pay is a bit lower than the average. Besides, plenty of jobs are also available. Just don’t try to use their bathrooms–it’s a really sensitive topic for them. Hopefully, by the time you move there, they’ll have figured it out. Or perhaps you can engineer a biomedical solution to stupidity?

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