$100k salary, packing up from Kennewick

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Daytona Beach, FL cityscape

if you left kennewick

Daytona Beach

fl · metro 722k

a dispatch from

daytona beach

FL

29.21°N

81.02°W

Daytona Beach has hard-packed sand you can actually drive your car on (yes, on the beach, it's a tradition). The Daytona 500 brings NASCAR to town every February and shakes the whole city awake. Bike Week is its own beast. Outside of the events, it's a quieter Florida beach town than its reputation suggests, with affordable oceanfront and the Halifax River making the geography interesting.

metro722k

01 · the verdict

the verdict

$98

more each month than Kennewick ran you

Almost a wash on cost. The case for Daytona Beach is about what you'd do there, not what you'd save.
landable, recorded on the daytona beach entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,784/mo

6% more expensive than Kennewick(vs $1,686/mo)

02state income tax

0%

vs 0% in Kennewick

03after rent

$6,549/mo

$98 less than Kennewick

gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.

04a house here

$331k

25% cheaper than Kennewick

vs $441k in Kennewick

05metro size

722k

vs 314k in Kennewick

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

212

pleasant days a year, in daytona beach.

Kennewick barely cracks 199 pleasant ones.

Nights and weekends fill up faster. 14.0× more on the calendar than Kennewick.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

63/100

15% lower than Kennewick

vs 74/100 in Kennewick

Closest outdoor draw: Bulow Creek State Park, 9.6 mi.

·walk score®

78/100

42% higher than Kennewick

vs 55/100 in Kennewick

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

2

75% fewer than Kennewick

vs 8 nonstops in Kennewick

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