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You're right about everything but the weather. It's only good for about 2 months of the year. 10 months out of the year it's either too hot or too cold. Air conditioning is a must. If you love Bay Area weather, you might want to stay in the west coast instead. Portland seems to be a good alternative.

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It certainly does get hot, but too cold? My goodness. Winters are something like 50 degrees on average with a handful of cold spells (_maybe_ hits freezing overnight) here and there. If that's too cold then most of the world is off limits to you.

It's been a while since I lived in TX. I just remember experiencing snow for the first time there. Looking at a climate graph, it looks like it's good 4 months out of the year there and not just 2.

Snow in Central Texas is rare and it's astounding when it sticks for a whole 24 hours. Compared to nearly everywhere else in the US, it's a warm climate. I can't even believe I'm debating whether or not Texas is "too cold"...

Yea I can’t believe this whole comment thread either... I’ve only been visiting in Austin but I’m from Madrid, Spain, widely considered a warm or at least temperate city, and Austin is like +5C on average every month... we’re talking about it being “cold”?

The original commenter is someone who has lived a long period of time in California. I grew up in SoCal and SF is too cold for me. I did not even own a pair of long pants before moving to the bay. I am actively trying to move down to SoCal but the tech scene is ass. And yes, the vast majority of the world is off limits. You can rip the California coast out of cold dead, penniless fingers

And in many decades it has snowed only a literal handful of times. Lots of northerners prefer living in Texas simply because the number of days each year that we see freezing temperatures can usually be counted on one or two hands.

As someone who moved to Portland from the Bay Area ~2 years ago the weather is significantly more variable. It gets colder, has a longer (and wetter) winter, and has fewer overall sunny days. I love Portland and I don't doubt that it is a smaller variation from the Bay compared to Austin, but I just didn't want people to get the impression that Portland has Bay Area weather.

Looking at the climate graph, Portland’s weather looks similar to sf Bay Area weather. Personally I don’t mind rain as long as it’s not hot

Are you in SF or Daly City or something? Most of the bay area has vastly more sunny days than Portland (??). Hell, even SF proper should have more sun than portland.

Actually, from google, Portland has 144 sunny days vs 205 national average vs 259 in San Francisco. And only 257 in San Jose (?).

I think those descriptions are meant to be about Portland rather than SF (where the commenter moved to a couple years ago). Would be perfectly accurate in that case. :)

This.

Too cold? I visited in January and couldn't believe how nice it was. It may be my Midwest frame of reference, but everyone else was walking around in short sleeves and perfectly comfortable so I doubt it.

LA Weather >>>>

Yup, why does the tech scene suck though ...the vast majority in the scene there will underpay you. The companies tend to be larger, slower moving with offices in office parks. SB has some potential but has yet to get the company traction I have been hoping. UCSB engineering grad school is one of the best in the countries yet all the talent flees to the bay.

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