$100k salary, packing up from Reading
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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more each month than Reading ran you
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 Reading(vs $1,478/mo)
9.3%
$519/mo more in state tax than Reading
vs 3.07% in Reading
$4,563/mo
$2,037 less than Reading
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
197% more expensive than Reading
vs $311k in Reading
830k
vs 433k in Reading
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Reading barely cracks 157 pleasant ones.
Things to do run about even with Reading.
74/100
14% higher than Reading
vs 65/100 in Reading
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
13% higher than Reading
vs 85/100 in Reading
0
0% fewer than Reading
vs 0 nonstops in Reading
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