$100k salary, packing up from Kansas City
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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the monthly premium over Kansas City
Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
99% more expensive than Kansas City(vs $1,502/mo)
9.3%
$383/mo more in state tax than Kansas City
vs 4.7% in Kansas City
$4,563/mo
$1,877 less than Kansas City
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
183% more expensive than Kansas City
vs $326k in Kansas City
830k
vs 2.2M in Kansas City
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Kansas City barely cracks 170 pleasant ones.
But the calendar thins out: Kansas City stays 3.5× busier.
74/100
32% higher than Kansas City
vs 56/100 in Kansas City
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
2% higher than Kansas City
vs 94/100 in Kansas City
0
100% fewer than Kansas City
vs 43 nonstops in Kansas City
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