same $100k income, fresh start from St. Louis
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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 St. Louis
Riverside is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
77% more expensive than St. Louis(vs $1,411/mo)
9.3%
$383/mo more in state tax than St. Louis
vs 4.7% in St. Louis
$5,065/mo
$1,466 less than St. Louis
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
115% more expensive than St. Louis
vs $277k in St. Louis
4.7M
vs 2.8M in St. Louis
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
St. Louis barely cracks 174 pleasant ones. Summer asks for something in return: 47 days top 95° here, 5 in St. Louis.
St. Louis hosts 13.3× more events.
69/100
1% higher than St. Louis
vs 68/100 in St. Louis
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
6% higher than St. Louis
vs 87/100 in St. Louis
14
77% fewer than St. Louis
vs 60 nonstops in St. Louis
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