same $100k income, fresh start from San Jose
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 San Jose
Move to Spokane and the monthly math gets easier. San Jose's rent is the headline; Spokane's is a footnote.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
56% cheaper than San Jose(vs $3,470/mo)
0%
$775/mo less in state tax than San Jose
vs 9.3% in San Jose
$6,813/mo
$2,725 more than San Jose
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
77% cheaper than San Jose
vs $1796k in San Jose
600k
vs 1.9M in San Jose
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
San Jose edges ahead with 283 pleasant days. A real winter, not a brutal one: 34 days under 20°, vs 0 in San Jose.
San Jose hosts 1.7× more events.
81/100
16% higher than San Jose
vs 70/100 in San Jose
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
4% lower than San Jose
vs 95/100 in San Jose
10
66% fewer than San Jose
vs 29 nonstops in San Jose
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