on $100k a year, leaving Detroit
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 each month than Detroit ran you
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
103% more expensive than Detroit(vs $1,472/mo)
9.3%
$421/mo more in state tax than Detroit
vs 4.25% in Detroit
$4,563/mo
$1,944 less than Detroit
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
252% more expensive than Detroit
vs $262k in Detroit
830k
vs 4.3M in Detroit
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Detroit barely cracks 160 pleasant ones.
Noticeably quieter than Detroit. About 73% fewer events on a typical month.
74/100
57% higher than Detroit
vs 47/100 in Detroit
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
3% lower than Detroit
vs 99/100 in Detroit
0
100% fewer than Detroit
vs 135 nonstops in Detroit
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