$100k a year, no longer in Bridgeport
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montgomery
AL
32.36°N
86.30°W
Montgomery is civil rights ground zero: Rosa Parks' bus, the start of the Selma march, Dr. King's Dexter Avenue church. The Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (the lynching memorial) are essential and devastating in equal measure. The city is also the Alabama state capital, with the river curving past, and the food and music scenes have grown up in the last decade. Heavy and beautiful.
in our guides
the verdict
under Bridgeport, every month
Montgomery is the kind of cheap that changes the math. Same salary, a different life on the other side.
a quick ledger.
$1,376/mo
50% cheaper than Bridgeport(vs $2,767/mo)
5%
$42/mo less in state tax than Bridgeport
vs 5.5% in Bridgeport
$6,541/mo
$1,433 more than Bridgeport
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$212k
72% cheaper than Bridgeport
vs $768k in Bridgeport
385k
vs 952k in Bridgeport
field notes, weather & such.
181
pleasant days a year, in montgomery.
Bridgeport barely cracks 172 pleasant ones. Hot stretches show up, though: 29 days above 95° here, 0 in Bridgeport.
357% more happening than in Bridgeport.
44/100
31% lower than Bridgeport
vs 64/100 in Bridgeport
Closest outdoor draw: Wind Creek State Park, 40.7 mi.
61/100
34% lower than Bridgeport
vs 92/100 in Bridgeport
3
200% more than Bridgeport
vs 1 nonstops in Bridgeport
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