same $100k income, fresh start from Lakeland
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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 Lakeland
Riverside is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
36% more expensive than Lakeland(vs $1,834/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Lakeland
vs 0% in Lakeland
$5,065/mo
$1,434 less than Lakeland
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
98% more expensive than Lakeland
vs $301k in Lakeland
4.7M
vs 818k in Lakeland
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Lakeland barely cracks 206 pleasant ones. Summers run hot, though: 47 days above 95° vs Lakeland's 13.
But the calendar thins out: Lakeland stays 2.0× busier.
69/100
44% higher than Lakeland
vs 48/100 in Lakeland
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
39% higher than Lakeland
vs 66/100 in Lakeland
14
79% fewer than Lakeland
vs 68 nonstops in Lakeland
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