on $100k a year, leaving San Antonio
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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more each month than San Antonio ran you
A small premium for Spokane. Worth it only if the rest of the city earns it back.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
9% more expensive than San Antonio(vs $1,394/mo)
0%
vs 0% in San Antonio
$6,813/mo
$126 less than San Antonio
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
50% more expensive than San Antonio
vs $280k in San Antonio
600k
vs 2.7M in San Antonio
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
San Antonio has the edge here, logging 167 pleasant days a year. Winter shows up, though: 34 days below 20° vs San Antonio's 0.
But the calendar thins out: San Antonio stays 3.1× busier.
81/100
65% higher than San Antonio
vs 49/100 in San Antonio
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
6% lower than San Antonio
vs 97/100 in San Antonio
10
71% fewer than San Antonio
vs 35 nonstops in San Antonio
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