same $100k income, fresh start from Kansas City
changea dispatch from
sarasota
FL
27.34°N
82.54°W
Sarasota is the home of the Ringling Brothers Circus (the museum is wild, and yes, there's a vintage clown college history), and Siesta Key's beach is regularly named the best in America for its pure quartz sand. The cultural scene is heavy for a Florida city of its size (theater, opera, art museum). Gulf sunsets here are the brochure shot. The food scene has caught up to the city's wealth and the retirees' time.
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more expensive each month than Kansas City
Sarasota runs a little pricier than Kansas City. The case has to be about something other than rent.
a quick ledger.
$2,121/mo
41% more expensive than Kansas City(vs $1,502/mo)
0%
$392/mo less in state tax than Kansas City
vs 4.7% in Kansas City
$6,212/mo
$228 less than Kansas City
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$423k
30% more expensive than Kansas City
vs $326k in Kansas City
262k
vs 2.2M in Kansas City
field notes, weather & such.
249
pleasant days a year, in sarasota.
Kansas City barely cracks 170 pleasant ones.
96% fewer events than Kansas City. The pace eases up.
59/100
5% higher than Kansas City
vs 56/100 in Kansas City
Closest outdoor draw: Myakka River State Park, 15.9 mi.
96/100
2% higher than Kansas City
vs 94/100 in Kansas City
6
86% fewer than Kansas City
vs 43 nonstops in Kansas City
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