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Oxnard, CA cityscape

next stop after fayetteville

Oxnard

ca · metro 830k

photo: ha ha / pexels

a 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.

metro830k

01 · the verdict

the verdict

$1,918

more expensive each month than Fayetteville

Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
landable, recorded on the oxnard entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$2,995/mo

103% more expensive than Fayetteville(vs $1,477/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$400/mo more in state tax than Fayetteville

vs 4.5% in Fayetteville

03after rent

$4,563/mo

$1,918 less than Fayetteville

gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.

04a house here

$923k

258% more expensive than Fayetteville

vs $258k in Fayetteville

05metro size

830k

vs 392k in Fayetteville

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

342

pleasant days a year, in oxnard.

Fayetteville only logs 193 pleasant days.

60% more happening than in Fayetteville.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

74/100

45% higher than Fayetteville

vs 51/100 in Fayetteville

Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.

·walk score®

96/100

26% higher than Fayetteville

vs 76/100 in Fayetteville

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

0

100% fewer than Fayetteville

vs 4 nonstops in Fayetteville

04 · see also

cities that play in oxnard's register: