on $100k a year, leaving Grand Rapids
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 Grand Rapids ran you
Riverside is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
54% more expensive than Grand Rapids(vs $1,620/mo)
9.3%
$421/mo more in state tax than Grand Rapids
vs 4.25% in Grand Rapids
$5,065/mo
$1,294 less than Grand Rapids
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
69% more expensive than Grand Rapids
vs $353k in Grand Rapids
4.7M
vs 1.2M in Grand Rapids
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Grand Rapids only logs 151 pleasant days. Heat is the cost: 47 days top 95° vs Grand Rapids's 0.
Grand Rapids hosts 11.5× more events.
69/100
23% higher than Grand Rapids
vs 56/100 in Grand Rapids
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
5% lower than Grand Rapids
vs 97/100 in Grand Rapids
14
30% fewer than Grand Rapids
vs 20 nonstops in Grand Rapids
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