on $100k a year, leaving Gainesville
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 Gainesville ran you
Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
82% more expensive than Gainesville(vs $1,645/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Gainesville
vs 0% in Gainesville
$4,563/mo
$2,125 less than Gainesville
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
191% more expensive than Gainesville
vs $317k in Gainesville
830k
vs 350k in Gainesville
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Gainesville barely cracks 206 pleasant ones.
8.0× the events of Gainesville, and the calendar shows it.
74/100
17% higher than Gainesville
vs 63/100 in Gainesville
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
5% higher than Gainesville
vs 91/100 in Gainesville
0
100% fewer than Gainesville
vs 5 nonstops in Gainesville
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