same $100k income, fresh start from Port St. Lucie
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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 each month than Port St. Lucie ran you
A real premium for Oxnard. Worth it only if the city itself is the whole point.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
28% more expensive than Port St. Lucie(vs $2,331/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Port St. Lucie
vs 0% in Port St. Lucie
$4,563/mo
$1,439 less than Port St. Lucie
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
132% more expensive than Port St. Lucie
vs $397k in Port St. Lucie
830k
vs 537k in Port St. Lucie
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Port St. Lucie keeps to 246 pleasant days a year.
74/100
48% higher than Port St. Lucie
vs 50/100 in Port St. Lucie
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
860% higher than Port St. Lucie
vs 10/100 in Port St. Lucie
0
100% fewer than Port St. Lucie
vs 23 nonstops in Port St. Lucie
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