same $100k income, fresh start from Anchorage
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riverside
CA
33.98°N
117.37°W
Riverside is where the navel orange got its start in America, with the parent tree from 1873 still alive and producing fruit on a downtown corner. The Mission Inn is a wildly ornate Spanish Revival hotel that hosts the country's biggest holiday lights festival. Riverside's downtown is genuinely walkable, with citrus groves still scattered through the foothills. Summers are dry and bright, with the foothills cooling the evenings.
the verdict
more expensive each month than Anchorage
Riverside doesn't pretend to be affordable. Move here for what Riverside is, not for what it leaves on your monthly ledger.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
46% more expensive than Anchorage(vs $1,713/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Anchorage
vs 0% in Anchorage
$5,065/mo
$1,555 less than Anchorage
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
36% more expensive than Anchorage
vs $438k in Anchorage
4.7M
vs 401k in Anchorage
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Anchorage barely cracks 93 pleasant ones. Heat is the cost: 47 days top 95° vs Anchorage's 0.
69/100
1% higher than Anchorage
vs 68/100 in Anchorage
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
16% higher than Anchorage
vs 79/100 in Anchorage
14
59% fewer than Anchorage
vs 34 nonstops in Anchorage
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