same $100k income, fresh start from Lafayette
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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 expensive each month than Lafayette
A real premium for Oxnard. Worth it only if the city itself is the whole point.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
125% more expensive than Lafayette(vs $1,332/mo)
9.3%
$525/mo more in state tax than Lafayette
vs 3% in Lafayette
$4,563/mo
$2,188 less than Lafayette
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
361% more expensive than Lafayette
vs $200k in Lafayette
830k
vs 414k in Lafayette
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Lafayette only manages 211 of those.
A month here packs 4.8× the events of Lafayette.
74/100
72% higher than Lafayette
vs 43/100 in Lafayette
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
13% higher than Lafayette
vs 85/100 in Lafayette
0
100% fewer than Lafayette
vs 3 nonstops in Lafayette
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