$100k salary, packing up from Nashville
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 Nashville 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
39% more expensive than Nashville(vs $1,790/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Nashville
vs 0% in Nashville
$5,065/mo
$1,478 less than Nashville
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
29% more expensive than Nashville
vs $461k in Nashville
4.7M
vs 2.1M in Nashville
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Nashville barely cracks 173 pleasant ones. Summer asks for something in return: 47 days top 95° here, 4 in Nashville.
98% fewer events than Nashville. The pace eases up.
69/100
23% higher than Nashville
vs 56/100 in Nashville
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
4% lower than Nashville
vs 96/100 in Nashville
14
70% fewer than Nashville
vs 47 nonstops in Nashville
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