Birmingham Tops Forbes List Of Cities With Most Value For Your Money

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Forbes Magazine compiled a list of the cities where a person can get the most value for their dollars, and Birmingham emerged as the top city on the list. The average salary adjusted for cost of living in Birmingham is $86,196. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Birmingham Patch morning newsletter.)

Birmingham and the state of Alabama as a whole have been recognized as desirable places to live due mostly - or entirely - to the low cost of living throughout the state. A recent study by the Tax Foundation mapped out what $100 is worth in each state. And Alabama was one of the states where $100 is worth the most.

The Forbes list included a couple of other southern cities as well, with Jackson, Mississippi, placing second and Memphis placing seventh.

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