same $100k income, fresh start from Lafayette
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 Lafayette 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
87% more expensive than Lafayette(vs $1,332/mo)
9.3%
$525/mo more in state tax than Lafayette
vs 3% in Lafayette
$5,065/mo
$1,686 less than Lafayette
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
197% more expensive than Lafayette
vs $200k in Lafayette
4.7M
vs 414k in Lafayette
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Lafayette barely cracks 211 pleasant ones. Summer asks for something in return: 47 days top 95° here, 7 in Lafayette.
About as much going on as in Lafayette.
69/100
60% higher than Lafayette
vs 43/100 in Lafayette
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
8% higher than Lafayette
vs 85/100 in Lafayette
14
367% more than Lafayette
vs 3 nonstops in Lafayette
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