$100k salary, packing up from St. Louis
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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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less monthly outlay than St. Louis
The gap is real. Spokane costs noticeably less than St. Louis, every month.
a quick ledger.
$1,520/mo
8% more expensive than St. Louis(vs $1,411/mo)
0%
$392/mo less in state tax than St. Louis
vs 4.7% in St. Louis
$6,813/mo
$282 more than St. Louis
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$420k
52% more expensive than St. Louis
vs $277k in St. Louis
600k
vs 2.8M in St. Louis
field notes, weather & such.
164
pleasant days a year, in spokane.
St. Louis edges ahead with 174 pleasant days.
St. Louis hosts 2.2× more events.
81/100
19% higher than St. Louis
vs 68/100 in St. Louis
Closest outdoor draw: Mount Spokane, 16.5 mi.
91/100
5% higher than St. Louis
vs 87/100 in St. Louis
10
83% fewer than St. Louis
vs 60 nonstops in St. Louis
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