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However, the six-figure salary requested is largely desired to ease financial worries like paying the bills.

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First GOBankingRates found the top 50 cities by population using the U.S. Census American Community Survey.

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Using the mortgage and expenditure costs the cost of living can be calculated for each city.

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The one-year changes for population, households and income can be calculated for each city.

The cities were sorted to first show the places with the largest influx of population.

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