$100k salary, packing up from Mobile
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 Mobile ran you
Riverside costs noticeably more than Mobile. You'd be paying for Riverside itself, not for breathing room around it.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
91% more expensive than Mobile(vs $1,302/mo)
9.3%
$358/mo more in state tax than Mobile
vs 5% in Mobile
$5,065/mo
$1,550 less than Mobile
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
207% more expensive than Mobile
vs $194k in Mobile
4.7M
vs 412k in Mobile
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Mobile keeps to 225 pleasant days a year. Bring the AC. 47 days a year clear 95°, well past Mobile's 3.
Lighter on events: Mobile packs 4.0× more into a month.
69/100
17% higher than Mobile
vs 59/100 in Mobile
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
33% higher than Mobile
vs 69/100 in Mobile
14
180% more than Mobile
vs 5 nonstops in Mobile
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