$100k a year, no longer in Riverside
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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cheaper each month than Riverside
Move to Spokane and the monthly math gets easier. Riverside's rent is the headline; Spokane's is a footnote.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
39% cheaper than Riverside(vs $2,493/mo)
0%
$775/mo less in state tax than Riverside
vs 9.3% in Riverside
$6,813/mo
$1,748 more than Riverside
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
29% cheaper than Riverside
vs $595k in Riverside
600k
vs 4.7M in Riverside
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Riverside has the edge here, logging 249 pleasant days a year. Winter shows up, though: 34 days below 20° vs Riverside's 0.
6.2× the events of Riverside, and the calendar shows it.
81/100
17% higher than Riverside
vs 69/100 in Riverside
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
1% lower than Riverside
vs 92/100 in Riverside
10
29% fewer than Riverside
vs 14 nonstops in Riverside
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