Thanks Rich. I played with the site a bit. Adjusting for inflation, San Diego was much more expensive in early 2006 than it is now. Somebody really should start a website about that 🙂
Seriously, if I did the graphing correctly San Francisco is about as expensive now as it was in 2006 even adjusted for inflation. Maybe I can get FRED to show me the least expensive and most expensive cities relative to their ~2006 peaks.
Finally I note that Honolulu and Hawaii and many other cities are not listed cities. Honolulu is about 350,000 folks so not trivial.