same $100k income, fresh start from Santa Maria
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 Santa Maria
In Spokane, rent stops being the headline. The cost gap shows up every month without you trying.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
55% cheaper than Santa Maria(vs $3,352/mo)
0%
$775/mo less in state tax than Santa Maria
vs 9.3% in Santa Maria
$6,813/mo
$2,607 more than Santa Maria
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
60% cheaper than Santa Maria
vs $1059k in Santa Maria
600k
vs 441k in Santa Maria
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Santa Maria gets 337 pleasant days a year, so you'd be trading some sunshine. A real winter, not a brutal one: 34 days under 20°, vs 0 in Santa Maria.
81/100
37% higher than Santa Maria
vs 59/100 in Santa Maria
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
5% higher than Santa Maria
vs 87/100 in Santa Maria
10
400% more than Santa Maria
vs 2 nonstops in Santa Maria
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