$100k salary, packing up from Toledo
changea dispatch from
kansas city
MO
39.10°N
94.58°W
Kansas City is barbecue (burnt ends are a local invention), jazz (the 18th and Vine district fed Charlie Parker and Count Basie), and fountains everywhere you turn. The city straddles two states and doesn't make a big deal out of it. The Plaza shopping district looks like Seville, which is delightfully odd for the Midwest. Friendly here means genuinely friendly.
the verdict
more each month than Toledo ran you
Kansas City runs a little pricier than Toledo. The case has to be about something other than rent.
a quick ledger.
$1,502/mo
25% more expensive than Toledo(vs $1,197/mo)
4.7%
$59/mo more in state tax than Toledo
vs 3.99% in Toledo
$6,440/mo
$364 less than Toledo
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$326k
66% more expensive than Toledo
vs $196k in Toledo
2.2M
vs 600k in Toledo
field notes, weather & such.
170
pleasant days a year, in kansas city.
Toledo barely cracks 159 pleasant ones.
236% more happening than in Toledo.
56/100
2% higher than Toledo
vs 55/100 in Toledo
Closest outdoor draw: Perry State Park, 48.7 mi.
94/100
65% higher than Toledo
vs 57/100 in Toledo
43
975% more than Toledo
vs 4 nonstops in Toledo
in the same ballpark as kansas city:
