with $100k coming in, swapping out of Kennewick

change
Oxnard, CA cityscape

instead of kennewick

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

$2,084

the monthly cost of moving past Kennewick

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

78% more expensive than Kennewick(vs $1,686/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$775/mo more in state tax than Kennewick

vs 0% in Kennewick

03after rent

$4,563/mo

$2,084 less than Kennewick

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

04a house here

$923k

109% more expensive than Kennewick

vs $441k in Kennewick

05metro size

830k

vs 314k in Kennewick

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

342

pleasant days a year, in oxnard.

Kennewick barely cracks 199 pleasant ones.

24.0× the events of Kennewick, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

74/100

0% lower than Kennewick

vs 74/100 in Kennewick

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

·walk score®

96/100

75% higher than Kennewick

vs 55/100 in Kennewick

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

0

100% fewer than Kennewick

vs 8 nonstops in Kennewick

04 · see also

cities that play in oxnard's register: