Comments on: Mint Map: America’s Most Frugal Cities

By: Ananas comosus var

Ananas comosus var — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:05:21 +0000

Interesting post, is instructive. Must tell a friend about your site.

By: dam-deneg.ru

dam-deneg.ru — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:06:39 +0000

Percent change will not represent the “frugality” of a city or state.

By: dam-deneg.ru

dam-deneg.ru — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:47:37 +0000

You can decide for yourself whether it is “representative” or interesting.

By: James M

James M — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:38:29 +0000

My only concern is really about the representativeness of the data:
1. These are mint.com users
2. Therefore they are regular computer users
3. Therefore they are regular internet users
4. They also are regular engaging in internet banking
5. They must also have relatively private access to a computer (not at a library) to engage in said internet banking, so more than likely they are home internet users, which means an internet connection at home.
6. We could go on…

See how quickly this is not a representative sample of the US population at large? I love graphs and maps and together is beautiful, but let’s just be clear about what mint.com users are as a SUBSET of the US population. Mint.com isn’t dumb, they could help us out a bit by giving us some other comparative data, like how many of us mint.com users have what kinds of assets or debt or net worth. Then we could compare those data with the US averages and see how a typical mint.com user compares to a typical US citizen.

Thanks for the graph and map though. Again, it is very interesting to see what mint.com users are up to (in a privacy-respecting, aggregated way!).

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By: Apps Downloads

Apps Downloads — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:44:02 +0000

How much money is required to go through customs when traveling to Canada from the US?

By: paul doty

paul doty — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:58:16 +0000

Of course people in Seattle and the whole of the Pacific Northwest are furgal, they have to save to pay for the exorbitant taxes the state imposes on it’s citizens. Seattle has embraced Socialism.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:13:30 +0000

@paul van @jack d- The map portrays the ‘most frugal cities’ as those that spent the least AND had the greatest decline in total spending. Note the text under the red heading:

“Red outline indicates cities with the lowest spending in 2009, that also cut back most in the last year. “

By: PoppaBlog

PoppaBlog — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:04:22 +0000

I’d love to see the opposite of this map. I would be willing to bet that the DC area (where I live) is still not being very frugal. I’ve definitely cut down on my spending, but it doesn’t appear that much has changed in good ole Northern Virginia.

By: KP

KP — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:54:35 +0000

How can any of this data be true when you have issues connecting with the bank I use all the time and fail to address this issue? Tons of New England customers use CitizensBank and you guys for a week lied and said they blocked mint.com when in fact they never did. Pretty sure you properly aggregated data from x amount of New England Citizenbanks customers that use mint!