$100k a year, no longer in Spartanburg
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 Spartanburg ran you
Riverside costs noticeably more than Spartanburg. You'd be paying for Riverside itself, not for breathing room around it.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
74% more expensive than Spartanburg(vs $1,434/mo)
9.3%
$233/mo more in state tax than Spartanburg
vs 6.5% in Spartanburg
$5,065/mo
$1,293 less than Spartanburg
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
115% more expensive than Spartanburg
vs $277k in Spartanburg
4.7M
vs 383k in Spartanburg
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Spartanburg keeps to 191 pleasant days a year. Warm, not extreme: 47 days clear 95°, vs 16 back in Spartanburg.
But the calendar thins out: Spartanburg stays 2.5× busier.
69/100
1% higher than Spartanburg
vs 68/100 in Spartanburg
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
19% higher than Spartanburg
vs 77/100 in Spartanburg
14
30% fewer than Spartanburg
vs 20 nonstops in Spartanburg
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