$100k salary, packing up from Chicago
changea dispatch from
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 each month than Chicago ran you
Riverside costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
15% more expensive than Chicago(vs $2,170/mo)
9.3%
$363/mo more in state tax than Chicago
vs 4.95% in Chicago
$5,065/mo
$686 less than Chicago
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
63% more expensive than Chicago
vs $365k in Chicago
4.7M
vs 9.3M in Chicago
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Chicago keeps to 153 pleasant days a year. Bring the AC. 47 days a year clear 95°, well past Chicago's 1.
Noticeably quieter than Chicago. About 100% fewer events on a typical month.
69/100
1% lower than Chicago
vs 70/100 in Chicago
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
8% lower than Chicago
vs 100/100 in Chicago
14
94% fewer than Chicago
vs 217 nonstops in Chicago
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