on $100k a year, leaving Fort Collins
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 Fort Collins ran you
A real premium for Oxnard. Worth it only if the city itself is the whole point.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
52% more expensive than Fort Collins(vs $1,971/mo)
9.3%
$408/mo more in state tax than Fort Collins
vs 4.4% in Fort Collins
$4,563/mo
$1,433 less than Fort Collins
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
61% more expensive than Fort Collins
vs $572k in Fort Collins
830k
vs 371k in Fort Collins
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Fort Collins keeps to 177 pleasant days a year.
2300% more happening than in Fort Collins.
74/100
7% higher than Fort Collins
vs 69/100 in Fort Collins
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
12% higher than Fort Collins
vs 86/100 in Fort Collins
0
100% fewer than Fort Collins
vs 169 nonstops in Fort Collins
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