Home prices in East Providence run 19% below the national median: $340,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $60,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 5.7x.
At a 1.55% effective rate, East Providence property taxes add $439 to the monthly payment on the median home, $5,270 a year in total.
Rhode Island levies a state income tax on top of the $2,353/month this mortgage runs. Model your real after-tax take-home before deciding how much payment you can carry.
East Providence's cost of living index is 115, above the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
East Providence's median home price runs 7% lower than nearby Providence: $365,000 there versus $340,000 here.