$100k salary, packing up from Ocala
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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 Ocala, every month
On paper, Spokane and Ocala are twins. In practice they live very differently.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
6% cheaper than Ocala(vs $1,616/mo)
0%
vs 0% in Ocala
$6,813/mo
$96 more than Ocala
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
52% more expensive than Ocala
vs $277k in Ocala
600k
vs 410k in Ocala
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Ocala edges ahead with 208 pleasant days. A real winter, not a brutal one: 34 days under 20°, vs 0 in Ocala.
3600% more happening than in Ocala.
81/100
31% higher than Ocala
vs 62/100 in Ocala
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
44% higher than Ocala
vs 63/100 in Ocala
10
100% more than Ocala
vs 5 nonstops in Ocala
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