$100k salary, packing up from Ogden

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Oxnard, CA cityscape

if you left ogden

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

$1,742

the monthly premium over Ogden

Oxnard costs noticeably more than Ogden. You'd be paying for Oxnard itself, not for breathing room around it.
landable, recorded on the oxnard entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$2,995/mo

83% more expensive than Ogden(vs $1,641/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$388/mo more in state tax than Ogden

vs 4.65% in Ogden

03after rent

$4,563/mo

$1,742 less than Ogden

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

04a house here

$923k

76% more expensive than Ogden

vs $524k in Ogden

05metro size

830k

vs 658k in Ogden

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

342

pleasant days a year, in oxnard.

Ogden only manages 174 of those.

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

74/100

7% lower than Ogden

vs 80/100 in Ogden

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

·walk score®

96/100

14% higher than Ogden

vs 84/100 in Ogden

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

0

100% fewer than Ogden

vs 90 nonstops in Ogden

04 · see also

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