Despite a slight boost in the cost-of-living category, Detroit tanked in both its nightlife and culture categories, falling into 36th and 22nd place, respectively.
But young singles need to eat as well as party, and New York scored dead last in the cost-of-living category.
Categories establish a uniform cost of each category and a maximum price for reimbursement.
A place in the HMP Oakwood private prison costs £13,200 a year while the average cost of a category C prisoner is £31,339 a year.
New York ranks 24th in the salary-adjusted cost of living category (the big paychecks help some, but clearly not enough), and San Francisco ranks 17th.
The other cost of living categories were also higher in Manhattan than in the rest of the country, but the cost differential was not nearly as great.
A qualitative comparison of the reliability and the cost of various categories of computational approach is tabulated.
Total cost differs from sum of category costs because of rounding.
