same $100k income, fresh start from Toledo
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 expensive each month than Toledo
Riverside is the expensive option. The argument has to be entirely about the place, not the price.
a quick ledger.
$2,493/mo
108% more expensive than Toledo(vs $1,197/mo)
9.3%
$443/mo more in state tax than Toledo
vs 3.99% in Toledo
$5,065/mo
$1,739 less than Toledo
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$595k
203% more expensive than Toledo
vs $196k in Toledo
4.7M
vs 600k in Toledo
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in riverside.
Toledo only logs 159 pleasant days. Heat is the cost: 47 days top 95° vs Toledo's 0.
Toledo hosts 4.2× more events.
69/100
25% higher than Toledo
vs 55/100 in Toledo
Closest outdoor draw: San Bernardino National Forest, 17.9 mi.
92/100
61% higher than Toledo
vs 57/100 in Toledo
14
250% more than Toledo
vs 4 nonstops in Toledo
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