It all evens out though, because us lucky bastards here in the midwest have cheaper steak than the coasts. I love seafood, but I eat steak/beef a hell of a lot more often than I eat seafood(although maybe I wouldn't if I lived elsewhere, who knows)
Although the best deal I ever saw was when I went to visit some friends in Mobile Alabama about 10-15 years ago(this was pre-Katrina and pre-BP oil spill), For dinner one night we ran over to this boat dock area in a shady looking part of mobile, and this dude was selling fresh shrimp off his shrimpboat for like $3 a lb. We bought 20 lbs of shrimp and ate like kings. It was the best goddamned shrimp I've ever had, and it was about 1/5 the cost of buying shrimp here in the midwest. If I lived there I'd be eating that shit every damned day.