$100k salary, packing up from Lubbock
changea dispatch from
honolulu
HI
21.31°N
157.86°W
Honolulu is Waikiki's high-rises pressed against turquoise water, Diamond Head crater glowing pink at dawn, and plate lunches that mix Hawaiian, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Portuguese into one perfect styrofoam container. Surf the south shore in summer, the north in winter. The North Shore is a 45-minute drive into a totally different world. Aloha here is a way of moving through the day.
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more each month than Lubbock ran you
Honolulu doesn't pretend to be affordable. Move here for what Honolulu is, not for what it leaves on your monthly ledger.
a quick ledger.
$2,843/mo
105% more expensive than Lubbock(vs $1,384/mo)
11%
$917/mo more in state tax than Lubbock
vs 0% in Lubbock
$4,574/mo
$2,375 less than Lubbock
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$1061k
404% more expensive than Lubbock
vs $211k in Lubbock
989k
vs 360k in Lubbock
field notes, weather & such.
316
pleasant days a year, in honolulu.
Lubbock only logs 186 pleasant days.
A month here packs 11.9× the events of Lubbock.
55/100
1000% higher than Lubbock
vs 5/100 in Lubbock
Closest outdoor draw: Ahupuaa O Kahana State Park, 17.1 mi.
99/100
43% higher than Lubbock
vs 69/100 in Lubbock
51
629% more than Lubbock
vs 7 nonstops in Lubbock
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