$100k salary, packing up from Anchorage
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spokane
WA
47.66°N
117.43°W
Spokane is eastern Washington's anchor city, very different from Seattle: drier, sunnier, with the Spokane River tumbling through downtown in actual waterfalls. Riverfront Park (built for the 1974 World's Fair) is the city's living room. Bing Crosby was born here. Mt. Spokane and Coeur d'Alene Lake are nearby. The Bloomsday run every May draws around 40,000 people. Affordable and outdoorsy.
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under Anchorage, every month
Money-wise it's a wash. The case for Spokane is everything that isn't rent.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
11% cheaper than Anchorage(vs $1,713/mo)
0%
vs 0% in Anchorage
$6,813/mo
$193 more than Anchorage
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
4% cheaper than Anchorage
vs $438k in Anchorage
600k
vs 401k in Anchorage
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Anchorage barely cracks 93 pleasant ones.
81/100
19% higher than Anchorage
vs 68/100 in Anchorage
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
15% higher than Anchorage
vs 79/100 in Anchorage
10
71% fewer than Anchorage
vs 34 nonstops in Anchorage
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