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Oxnard, CA cityscape

if you left spartanburg

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

$1,795

pricier each month than Spartanburg

Oxnard doesn't pretend to be affordable. Move here for what Oxnard is, not for what it leaves on your monthly ledger.
landable, recorded on the oxnard entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$2,995/mo

109% more expensive than Spartanburg(vs $1,434/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$233/mo more in state tax than Spartanburg

vs 6.5% in Spartanburg

03after rent

$4,563/mo

$1,795 less than Spartanburg

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

04a house here

$923k

233% more expensive than Spartanburg

vs $277k in Spartanburg

05metro size

830k

vs 383k in Spartanburg

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

342

pleasant days a year, in oxnard.

Spartanburg barely cracks 191 pleasant ones.

60% more happening than in Spartanburg.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

74/100

9% higher than Spartanburg

vs 68/100 in Spartanburg

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

·walk score®

96/100

25% higher than Spartanburg

vs 77/100 in Spartanburg

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

0

100% fewer than Spartanburg

vs 20 nonstops in Spartanburg

04 · see also

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