same $100k income, fresh start from Albuquerque
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oxnard
CA
34.20°N
119.18°W
Oxnard is California's strawberry capital, where the fields literally run up to the beach. Channel Islands Harbor is a quiet alternative to the busier Ventura and Santa Barbara, with great seafood and a chill Mexican food scene. The weather is the perfect 65-and-overcast that locals call 'June gloom' for most of summer. The Channel Islands themselves are a ferry ride away.
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more expensive each month than Albuquerque
Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
101% more expensive than Albuquerque(vs $1,489/mo)
9.3%
$283/mo more in state tax than Albuquerque
vs 5.9% in Albuquerque
$4,563/mo
$1,790 less than Albuquerque
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
163% more expensive than Albuquerque
vs $351k in Albuquerque
830k
vs 924k in Albuquerque
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Albuquerque barely cracks 205 pleasant ones.
Albuquerque hosts 1.8× more events.
74/100
9% lower than Albuquerque
vs 81/100 in Albuquerque
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
2% higher than Albuquerque
vs 94/100 in Albuquerque
0
100% fewer than Albuquerque
vs 23 nonstops in Albuquerque
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