on $100k a year, leaving San Diego
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 San Diego, every month
Move to Spokane and the monthly math gets easier. San Diego's rent is the headline; Spokane's is a footnote.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
47% cheaper than San Diego(vs $2,890/mo)
0%
$775/mo less in state tax than San Diego
vs 9.3% in San Diego
$6,813/mo
$2,145 more than San Diego
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
58% cheaper than San Diego
vs $1010k in San Diego
600k
vs 3.3M in San Diego
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
San Diego actually gets more: 332 pleasant days a year. Cold snaps are part of the year: 34 days below 20° here, 0 in San Diego.
But the calendar thins out: San Diego stays 4.7× busier.
81/100
8% higher than San Diego
vs 75/100 in San Diego
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
8% lower than San Diego
vs 99/100 in San Diego
10
82% fewer than San Diego
vs 55 nonstops in San Diego
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