$100k salary, packing up from Louisville
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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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below Louisville's monthly cost
The gap is real. Spokane costs noticeably less than Louisville, every month.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
11% more expensive than Louisville(vs $1,368/mo)
0%
$375/mo less in state tax than Louisville
vs 4.5% in Louisville
$6,813/mo
$223 more than Louisville
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
49% more expensive than Louisville
vs $282k in Louisville
600k
vs 1.4M in Louisville
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Louisville edges ahead with 181 pleasant days. A real winter, not a brutal one: 34 days under 20°, vs 15 in Louisville.
But the calendar thins out: Louisville stays 2.5× busier.
81/100
50% higher than Louisville
vs 54/100 in Louisville
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
3% lower than Louisville
vs 94/100 in Louisville
10
55% fewer than Louisville
vs 22 nonstops in Louisville
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