> Ask anyone in a HCOL area in the US and it is hardly an "exception".

By definition this is an exception because there are simultaneously places in the US with a low cost of living. If it had something to do with USD, wouldn’t you see the effect everywhere in the US, without exception? I think we see a lot of _disparity_ in cost of living. Again, not sure what this has to do with the value of USD.

> You also didn't make any point and just casually accepted getting scammed on the debasement of your own fiat currency.

You say this, but you don’t explain the mechanism of how this works. Maybe I’m too dumb, can you spell it out for me? What’s the scam exactly?