$100k salary, packing up from Columbus

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Oxnard, CA cityscape

if you left columbus

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

$1,927

the monthly cost of moving past Columbus

Oxnard is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
landable, recorded on the oxnard entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$2,995/mo

98% more expensive than Columbus(vs $1,511/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$443/mo more in state tax than Columbus

vs 3.99% in Columbus

03after rent

$4,563/mo

$1,927 less than Columbus

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

04a house here

$923k

164% more expensive than Columbus

vs $350k in Columbus

05metro size

830k

vs 2.2M in Columbus

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

342

pleasant days a year, in oxnard.

Columbus only logs 171 pleasant days.

Columbus hosts 4.8× more events.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

74/100

30% higher than Columbus

vs 57/100 in Columbus

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

·walk score®

96/100

13% higher than Columbus

vs 85/100 in Columbus

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

0

100% fewer than Columbus

vs 32 nonstops in Columbus

04 · see also

in the same ballpark as oxnard: