on $100k a year, leaving Mobile
changea dispatch from
grand rapids
MI
42.96°N
85.67°W
Grand Rapids has won Beer City USA multiple times, hosts ArtPrize (one of the world's largest open art competitions every fall), and built itself on furniture (Steelcase, Herman Miller). The Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park is a sleeper world-class attraction. Downtown is walkable, the surrounding farmland is gorgeous in autumn, and Lake Michigan beaches are 30 minutes west. Quietly excellent.
the verdict
more each month than Mobile ran you
Grand Rapids runs a little pricier than Mobile. The case has to be about something other than rent.
a quick ledger.
$1,620/mo
24% more expensive than Mobile(vs $1,302/mo)
4.25%
$62/mo less in state tax than Mobile
vs 5% in Mobile
$6,359/mo
$256 less than Mobile
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$353k
82% more expensive than Mobile
vs $194k in Mobile
1.2M
vs 412k in Mobile
field notes, weather & such.
151
pleasant days a year, in grand rapids.
Mobile edges ahead with 225 pleasant days. Cold is the cost: 50 days drop below 20° vs Mobile's 0.
188% more happening than in Mobile.
56/100
5% lower than Mobile
vs 59/100 in Mobile
Closest outdoor draw: White Pine Trail State Park, 5.4 mi.
97/100
41% higher than Mobile
vs 69/100 in Mobile
20
300% more than Mobile
vs 5 nonstops in Mobile
in the same ballpark as grand rapids:
