same $100k income, fresh start from St. Louis
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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 St. Louis ran you
Oxnard costs noticeably more than St. Louis. You'd be paying for Oxnard itself, not for breathing room around it.
a quick ledger.
$2,995/mo
112% more expensive than St. Louis(vs $1,411/mo)
9.3%
$383/mo more in state tax than St. Louis
vs 4.7% in St. Louis
$4,563/mo
$1,968 less than St. Louis
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$923k
234% more expensive than St. Louis
vs $277k in St. Louis
830k
vs 2.8M in St. Louis
field notes, weather & such.
342
pleasant days a year, in oxnard.
St. Louis only manages 174 of those.
Lighter on events: St. Louis packs 3.3× more into a month.
74/100
9% higher than St. Louis
vs 68/100 in St. Louis
Closest outdoor draw: Channel Islands National Park, 14 mi.
96/100
10% higher than St. Louis
vs 87/100 in St. Louis
0
100% fewer than St. Louis
vs 60 nonstops in St. Louis
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