$100k a year, no longer in Chicago
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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 Chicago
Oxnard doesn't pretend to be affordable. Move here for what Oxnard is, not for what it leaves on your monthly ledger.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
38% more expensive than Chicago(vs $2,170/mo)
9.3%
$363/mo more in state tax than Chicago
vs 4.95% in Chicago
$4,563/mo
$1,188 less than Chicago
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
153% more expensive than Chicago
vs $365k in Chicago
830k
vs 9.3M in Chicago
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Chicago barely cracks 153 pleasant ones.
Chicago hosts 54.0× more events.
74/100
6% higher than Chicago
vs 70/100 in Chicago
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
4% lower than Chicago
vs 100/100 in Chicago
0
100% fewer than Chicago
vs 217 nonstops in Chicago
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