on $100k a year, leaving Portland
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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 each month than Portland ran you
Riverside costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
40% more expensive than Portland(vs $1,781/mo)
9.3%
$46/mo more in state tax than Portland
vs 8.75% in Portland
$5,065/mo
$758 less than Portland
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
6% more expensive than Portland
vs $562k in Portland
4.7M
vs 2.5M in Portland
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Portland keeps to 178 pleasant days a year. The trade is summer: 47 days above 95°, vs 7 in Portland.
But the calendar thins out: Portland stays 20.5× busier.
69/100
21% lower than Portland
vs 87/100 in Portland
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
8% lower than Portland
vs 100/100 in Portland
14
75% fewer than Portland
vs 57 nonstops in Portland
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