on $100k a year, leaving Rochester
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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under Rochester, every month
Spokane gives you room Rochester doesn't. Same gross salary, lower monthly cost of living.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
1% cheaper than Rochester(vs $1,534/mo)
0%
$487/mo less in state tax than Rochester
vs 5.85% in Rochester
$6,813/mo
$501 more than Rochester
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
54% more expensive than Rochester
vs $273k in Rochester
600k
vs 1.1M in Rochester
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Rochester only logs 147 pleasant days.
About as much going on as in Rochester.
81/100
40% higher than Rochester
vs 58/100 in Rochester
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
32% higher than Rochester
vs 69/100 in Rochester
10
44% fewer than Rochester
vs 18 nonstops in Rochester
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