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Riverside, CA cityscape

if you left shreveport

Riverside

ca · metro 4.7M

a 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.

metro4.7M

01 · the verdict

the verdict

$1,710

more each month than Shreveport ran you

Riverside costs noticeably more than Shreveport. You'd be paying for Riverside itself, not for breathing room around it.
landable, recorded on the riverside entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$2,493/mo

91% more expensive than Shreveport(vs $1,308/mo)

02state income tax

9.3%

$525/mo more in state tax than Shreveport

vs 3% in Shreveport

03after rent

$5,065/mo

$1,710 less than Shreveport

gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.

04a house here

$595k

238% more expensive than Shreveport

vs $176k in Shreveport

05metro size

4.7M

vs 383k in Shreveport

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

249

pleasant days a year, in riverside.

Shreveport keeps to 159 pleasant days a year.

500% more happening than in Shreveport.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

69/100

23% higher than Shreveport

vs 56/100 in Shreveport

Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.

·walk score®

92/100

80% higher than Shreveport

vs 51/100 in Shreveport

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

14

180% more than Shreveport

vs 5 nonstops in Shreveport

04 · see also

neighbors of riverside on the map of tradeoffs: