Even as the 2016 elections brought increased public attention to rural life, stereotypes and misconceptions abound. One of these misperceptions is the generalization that prices are lower in rural areas. This article is a restudy of Zimmerman, Ham, and Frank (2008) research on geographic differences in the costs of living. Asking the same fundamental question—if someone bought the same thing in a rural and urban area, would they pay the same price?—and using the same methodology, the results 10 years later indicate that, contrary to popular perception, there was again no consistent pattern of lower prices in rural counties and no consistent pattern of a lower rural cost of living in all of the rural areas. While prices are only one piece of the larger picture of how rural households meet their needs, in addition to price differences, the results highlight how differences in rural life create additional costs that extend beyond prices.

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地方的持久价格：重温农村的生活成本☆

尽管 2016 年的选举让公众更加关注农村生活，但刻板印象和误解比比皆是。这些误解之一是普遍认为农村地区的价格较低。本文是 Zimmerman、Ham 和 Frank（2008 年）关于生活成本地域差异研究的再研究。问同样的基本问题——如果有人在农村和城市地区买同样的东西，他们会支付同样的价格吗？——并使用同样的方法，10 年后的结果表明，与普遍看法相反，再次没有农村县的价格较低的一致模式和所有农村地区农村生活成本较低的模式不一致。虽然价格只是农村家庭如何满足其需求的更大图景的一部分，但除了价格差异之外，