same $100k income, fresh start from Salisbury
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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 Salisbury ran you
Oxnard doesn't pretend to be affordable. Move here for what Oxnard is, not for what it leaves on your monthly ledger.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
58% more expensive than Salisbury(vs $1,899/mo)
9.3%
$92/mo more in state tax than Salisbury
vs 8.2% in Salisbury
$4,563/mo
$1,188 less than Salisbury
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
120% more expensive than Salisbury
vs $420k in Salisbury
830k
vs 130k in Salisbury
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
Salisbury barely cracks 189 pleasant ones.
2.0× the events of Salisbury, and the calendar shows it.
74/100
40% higher than Salisbury
vs 53/100 in Salisbury
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
17% higher than Salisbury
vs 82/100 in Salisbury
0
100% fewer than Salisbury
vs 2 nonstops in Salisbury
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