01 · the cities
Oxnard
Oxnard is California's strawberry capital, where the fields literally run up to the beach. Channel Islands Harbor is a quiet alternative to the busier Ventura and Santa Barbara, with great seafood and a chill Mexican food scene. The weather is the perfect 65-and-overcast that locals call 'June gloom' for most of summer. The Channel Islands themselves are a ferry ride away.
full dispatch→Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice (446, and locals will tell you the exact number), three rivers crashing together downtown, and a sandwich tradition where the fries go inside. The mills are long gone but the neighborhoods they built (Polish Hill, Bloomfield, the Strip) still feed you like a great aunt. Carnegie Mellon and UPMC turned the old industrial bones into a robotics and medical research scene. The skyline reveal coming through the Fort Pitt Tunnel is the cheapest awe in America.
full dispatch→02 · the money
Median rent
Median rent
$2,995/mo
$1,473/mo
$1,522/mo less than Oxnard (103%)
Median home price
Median home price
$923k
$223k
$700k less than Oxnard
State income tax
State income tax
9.3%
3.1%
Gross left after rent
Gross left after rent
$4,563/mo
$6,605/mo
Pittsburgh has $2,042/mo more gross after rent at $100k
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03 · the weather
Pleasant days/yr
Pleasant days/yr
342 days
161 days
181 fewer than Oxnard
Extreme heat days
Extreme heat days
0 days
0 days
days above 95°F per year
Extreme cold days
Extreme cold days
0 days
28 days
days below 20°F per year
Pittsburgh drops below 20°F on 28 more days per year than Oxnard.
04 · the life
OutdoorScore
OutdoorScore
74 / 100
69 / 100
5.0 pts behind Oxnard
Nonstop flights
Nonstop flights
0 routes
37 routes
37 more direct routes than Oxnard
Metro size
Metro size
830k metro
2.4M metro
Oxnard has 3.3x fewer events per month than Pittsburgh.
the verdict
3
Oxnard
categories won
5
Pittsburgh
categories won
Pittsburgh wins on money. Oxnard has the edge on weather.
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