with $100k coming in, swapping out of Santa Rosa
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 Santa Rosa's monthly cost
On paper, Riverside and Santa Rosa are twins. In practice they live very differently.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
4% cheaper than Santa Rosa(vs $2,597/mo)
9.3%
vs 9.3% in Santa Rosa
$5,065/mo
$104 more than Santa Rosa
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
27% cheaper than Santa Rosa
vs $817k in Santa Rosa
4.7M
vs 482k in Santa Rosa
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Santa Rosa actually gets more: 254 pleasant days a year. Warm, not extreme: 47 days clear 95°, vs 28 back in Santa Rosa.
500% more happening than in Santa Rosa.
69/100
0% lower than Santa Rosa
vs 69/100 in Santa Rosa
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
6% lower than Santa Rosa
vs 98/100 in Santa Rosa
14
250% more than Santa Rosa
vs 4 nonstops in Santa Rosa
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