on $100k a year, leaving Sacramento
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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
pricier each month than Sacramento
Riverside costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
12% more expensive than Sacramento(vs $2,226/mo)
9.3%
vs 9.3% in Sacramento
$5,065/mo
$267 less than Sacramento
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
1% more expensive than Sacramento
vs $589k in Sacramento
4.7M
vs 2.4M in Sacramento
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Sacramento keeps to 211 pleasant days a year.
93% fewer events than Sacramento. The pace eases up.
69/100
8% lower than Sacramento
vs 75/100 in Sacramento
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
6% lower than Sacramento
vs 98/100 in Sacramento
14
50% fewer than Sacramento
vs 28 nonstops in Sacramento
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