Disclaimer

Relocation By Numbers provides planning tools and educational information for relocation, cost of living, salary comparison, housing, and FIRE planning. The site is designed to help users compare scenarios and think through tradeoffs. It is not a source of personalized financial, tax, legal, mortgage, immigration, or investment advice.

Planning estimates only

Calculator results are planning estimates based on the information you enter and simplified assumptions about taxes, investment returns, inflation, salary growth, housing costs, and living expenses. Actual results will vary and may differ materially from the outputs shown.

These tools are intended for directional comparison. They are most useful for questions like whether one city may be more affordable than another, how a move may affect a monthly budget, or how lower expenses may change a FIRE timeline. They are not designed to predict exact personal outcomes.

Tax, mortgage, and legal limitations

Tax estimates use simplified federal, state, or country-specific models for comparison purposes. They are not intended to represent exact tax filing outcomes and may not reflect your full personal situation, deductions, credits, local taxes, payroll contributions, treaty rules, immigration status, or other important variables.

Housing and mortgage-related estimates are also simplified planning calculations. They do not represent lender quotes, mortgage approvals, underwriting decisions, insurance offers, or final closing costs.

Nothing on this site should be interpreted as legal guidance, including information related to immigration, residency, visas, or cross-border relocation. Those rules can change and may depend heavily on personal facts and jurisdiction-specific requirements.

FIRE and investment planning limitations

FIRE calculators on this site use simplified planning assumptions about spending, withdrawal rates, investment growth, and inflation. They do not guarantee investment outcomes and do not fully model every risk, including market volatility, sequence-of-returns risk, tax law changes, or future spending changes.

Investment-related content on this site is for general educational planning only and should not be treated as personalized investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or allocate assets in any particular way.

Your responsibility

Before making financial, tax, investment, housing, mortgage, legal, or relocation decisions, you should consult qualified professionals as appropriate for your situation.

By using this website, you acknowledge that calculator outputs are estimates designed for planning and comparison only, and that you are responsible for any decisions made based on the information provided.

More information

For more detail on how Relocation By Numbers builds its estimates and comparison tools, see the methodology page.