$100k salary, packing up from Pittsburgh
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 Pittsburgh
Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
103% more expensive than Pittsburgh(vs $1,473/mo)
9.3%
$519/mo more in state tax than Pittsburgh
vs 3.07% in Pittsburgh
$4,563/mo
$2,042 less than Pittsburgh
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
314% more expensive than Pittsburgh
vs $223k in Pittsburgh
830k
vs 2.4M in Pittsburgh
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Pittsburgh barely cracks 161 pleasant ones.
But the calendar thins out: Pittsburgh stays 3.3× busier.
74/100
7% higher than Pittsburgh
vs 69/100 in Pittsburgh
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
3% lower than Pittsburgh
vs 99/100 in Pittsburgh
0
100% fewer than Pittsburgh
vs 37 nonstops in Pittsburgh
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