on $100k a year, leaving Lansing
changea dispatch from
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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lighter monthly cost than Lansing
Spokane and Lansing land close on cost. The reasons to move are about how you'd live, not what you'd save.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
21% more expensive than Lansing(vs $1,259/mo)
0%
$354/mo less in state tax than Lansing
vs 4.25% in Lansing
$6,813/mo
$93 more than Lansing
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
73% more expensive than Lansing
vs $244k in Lansing
600k
vs 473k in Lansing
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Lansing barely cracks 153 pleasant ones.
106% more happening than in Lansing.
81/100
42% higher than Lansing
vs 57/100 in Lansing
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
14% higher than Lansing
vs 80/100 in Lansing
10
67% more than Lansing
vs 6 nonstops in Lansing
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