$100k a year, no longer in Baton Rouge
changea dispatch from
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 Baton Rouge
Oxnard costs noticeably more than Baton Rouge. You'd be paying for Oxnard itself, not for breathing room around it.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
120% more expensive than Baton Rouge(vs $1,361/mo)
9.3%
$525/mo more in state tax than Baton Rouge
vs 3% in Baton Rouge
$4,563/mo
$2,159 less than Baton Rouge
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
269% more expensive than Baton Rouge
vs $250k in Baton Rouge
830k
vs 874k in Baton Rouge
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Baton Rouge only manages 187 of those.
1.6× the events of Baton Rouge, and the calendar shows it.
74/100
48% higher than Baton Rouge
vs 50/100 in Baton Rouge
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
28% higher than Baton Rouge
vs 75/100 in Baton Rouge
0
100% fewer than Baton Rouge
vs 4 nonstops in Baton Rouge
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