An actual instant message conversation between me and Brookie:

JohnEklund (9:18:20 PM): cost of living in charlotte is like 95 or so and here it's 88
JohnEklund (9:18:42 PM): so it's not as bad as a lot of other bigger cities thank goodness
JohnEklund (9:19:56 PM): they're both still below national average so that's good
Br00ke6 (9:20:31 PM): 95 what?
JohnEklund (9:21:07 PM): 95% is the cost of living
Br00ke6 (9:21:31 PM): speak english john! :-)
JohnEklund (9:22:09 PM): 100 (%) is the national average for cost of living, so it's a relative scale
JohnEklund (9:22:28 PM): relative to inflation, cost of goods sold, home prices, flotsam and jetsam
Br00ke6 (9:22:48 PM): what bout that stuff i was supposed to learn in Economics.. where what goes in equals what goes out, if it doesn't it's.. whatever, the basketball coach taught that class in highschool
JohnEklund (9:23:14 PM): supply equals demand?
Br00ke6 (9:23:20 PM): yea, that stuff
Br00ke6 (9:23:25 PM): supply and demand
Br00ke6 (9:23:42 PM): my demand for Johneklund will be more than you can supply when u move to NC
JohnEklund (9:23:50 PM): ahhhhh.
Br00ke6 (9:23:51 PM): then we will have a recession or something!
JohnEklund (9:23:52 PM): good point
JohnEklund (9:24:00 PM): you'll have a deficit
JohnEklund (9:24:04 PM): or a shortage
Br00ke6 (9:24:14 PM): i like recession better
JohnEklund (9:24:16 PM): that means the price will go up
Br00ke6 (9:24:22 PM): a Deficit of John
Br00ke6 (9:24:28 PM): yea it will if u think bout it
JohnEklund (9:24:35 PM): john will have a deficit of brookie too
JohnEklund (9:24:42 PM): cost of travel, etc.. long distance bills.
JohnEklund (9:24:49 PM): true true
Br00ke6 (9:24:52 PM): i could spend 20 cents on gas driving to ur house now, and when u move, it will cost me 300 dollars for a plane ticket!
JohnEklund (9:25:08 PM): wow, economics really does work!!!
Br00ke6 (9:25:23 PM): i'm CHANGING MY MAJOR NOW!