$100k salary, packing up from Tallahassee
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 Tallahassee ran you
Riverside costs noticeably more than Tallahassee. You'd be paying for Riverside itself, not for breathing room around it.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
63% more expensive than Tallahassee(vs $1,527/mo)
9.3%
$775/mo more in state tax than Tallahassee
vs 0% in Tallahassee
$5,065/mo
$1,741 less than Tallahassee
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
106% more expensive than Tallahassee
vs $289k in Tallahassee
4.7M
vs 393k in Tallahassee
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Tallahassee keeps to 186 pleasant days a year.
Nights and weekends fill up faster. 3.0× more on the calendar than Tallahassee.
69/100
19% higher than Tallahassee
vs 58/100 in Tallahassee
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
19% higher than Tallahassee
vs 77/100 in Tallahassee
14
100% more than Tallahassee
vs 7 nonstops in Tallahassee
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