You would think that you life style would get a raise but for the most part it would stay the same. Back in 1990 I went to a job interview in Oahu and the salary sounded insane till we went and looked around the island and saw what things cost. A six pack of Coke was like $6.00 box to frosted flakes was like $5.50. We looked at a 3 bedroom bungalow that needed a ton of work $300,500.00 it was almost identical to what I had here in Baltimore that I bought 2 years earlier for $50,000 .