$100k salary, packing up from Los Angeles
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
below Los Angeles's monthly cost
The gap is real. Riverside costs noticeably less than Los Angeles, every month.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
14% cheaper than Los Angeles(vs $2,899/mo)
9.3%
vs 9.3% in Los Angeles
$5,065/mo
$406 more than Los Angeles
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
42% cheaper than Los Angeles
vs $1029k in Los Angeles
4.7M
vs 12.8M in Los Angeles
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Los Angeles gets 283 pleasant days a year, so you'd be trading some sunshine. Summers run hot, though: 47 days above 95° vs Los Angeles's 19.
Noticeably quieter than Los Angeles. About 98% fewer events on a typical month.
69/100
3% higher than Los Angeles
vs 67/100 in Los Angeles
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
4% lower than Los Angeles
vs 96/100 in Los Angeles
14
91% fewer than Los Angeles
vs 150 nonstops in Los Angeles
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