same $100k income, fresh start from Santa Rosa
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 Rosa
Move to Spokane and the monthly math gets easier. Santa Rosa's rent is the headline; Spokane's is a footnote.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
41% cheaper than Santa Rosa(vs $2,597/mo)
0%
$775/mo less in state tax than Santa Rosa
vs 9.3% in Santa Rosa
$6,813/mo
$1,852 more than Santa Rosa
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
49% cheaper than Santa Rosa
vs $817k in Santa Rosa
600k
vs 482k in Santa Rosa
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
Santa Rosa has the edge here, logging 254 pleasant days a year. Cold snaps are part of the year: 34 days below 20° here, 0 in Santa Rosa.
A month here packs 37.0× the events of Santa Rosa.
81/100
17% higher than Santa Rosa
vs 69/100 in Santa Rosa
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
7% lower than Santa Rosa
vs 98/100 in Santa Rosa
10
150% more than Santa Rosa
vs 4 nonstops in Santa Rosa
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