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How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...
by acchow 10y ago
How will Vancouver improve its weather?
California has a powerful draw...
- dpc59 10y agoWinter is great when you prepare accordingly.
- astrodust 10y agoThe skiing conditions near Vancouver are significantly better than near San Francisco, year-round.
- brianorwhatever 10y agoA little bit of rain is a small price to pay for not having massive drought problems
- astrodust 10y agoIn an era of declining fresh-water reserves, being somewhere rainy is a good thing.
- martin1975 10y agoWe got so much rain in CA this year, the drought is nearly gone now. You can import water, but you can't import sunshine :)
- hackuser 10y agoLots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.
- martin1975 10y agoAll of these have more sunny days than Vancouver. :)
- JonoBB 10y agoVancouver has a lot more sunshine per year than London.
- martin1975 10y agoI've met a Londoner in Seattle (which is about 2 hrs from Vancouver), said he felt "at home" with the weather in Seattle... I'm guessing they're about the same, though I suspect you're right, given the UK's one big island ...
- fdsfsafasfdas 10y agoI assumed they were referring to the part of the state with decent weather, not the bay area.
- cdelsolar 10y agoYou guys realize that our weather sucks right? A handful of days over 75F per year, near-freezing cold and fog in _July_ in some parts of the city, needing to carry at least a light jacket/hoodie every single day of the year?
- greglindahl 10y agoDid you try Palo Alto? Bay Area is not the same as San Francisco.
- acchow 10y agoNot everyone thinks >75F is comfortable...imho, if you're sitting in the noon sun having a picnic, 65-70F is ideal. Also, not everyone hates wearing a jacket everyday...
- martin1975 10y agoWinters are mild in Vancouver. What kills anyone who wasn't born there is the nearly yearlong overcast gloom... Sunshine is a necessary ingredient to feeling good. Coffee is just a temp fix.
- justinhj 10y agoI don't mind Vancouvers overcast gloom at all because it's such a beautiful place to live. I'm from rural England though.
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- pragone 10y agoLiterally one of the things I hated the most when I visited California and all I hear about California is the weather (I should say, "San Francisco", not CA, since obviously CA is a pretty big state). I can't imagine what living somewhere that is the same every day.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoExcept Vancouver IS also the same every day: dark, gloomy, overcast clouds with constant rain or drizzle. I lived in Seattle for a year, and I got depressed from the weather. My doctor handed me a huge bottle of Vitamin D to take, saying most of her patients that lived there are deficient. I couldn't handle it, so I moved back to sunny California, and immediately, my happiness levels returned back to normal again. Humans rely on the light to regulate their biorhythms, and Seattle/Vancouver are so far up north that in December, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark at around 3 PM. For what it's worth, I grew up on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, PA with its notoriously bad weather, and I could cope with the variety of having four distinct seasons, including real winters with snowfall, much better than Seattle/Vancouver's monolithic climate (excluding the short summer that gives you two months of what SF weather is like every day).
- acchow 10y ago100x this. I get a lot of energy and happiness walking in the sun in the morning. Something so simple, yet has a dramatic effect on my quality of life.
- cylinder 10y agoIt sucks doesn't it. I feel silly for having so much of my mood determined by the presence of clouds, but not much I can do about it
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI was just there in Seattle the last five days. The entire time, it was cloudy and gray, nearly always raining. As soon as I got back and walked right into the sunny blue skies outside of SFO, my mood perked up almost instantly. The difference was incredible!
- mck- 10y agoWeather here is amazing! Vancouver has such a bad rep when it comes to rain, but honestly it's not that bad. Here's what it's really like: Between May and October, basically half of the year, you'll have very comfortable T-shirt weather, and blue skies I'd say 70% of the time! Between December and March it's gloomy, but you'll have awesome snow in the mountains, just 30 min from downtown :) from our office we can see the slopes. Just went skiing with the team 2 months ago. Vancouver is one of the few cities you can ski in the morning and lie on the beach in the afternoon, grilling BBQ and play beach volleyball. Life's not that bad! I've been here 5 years :) BTW, if anyone is in town for the YC interviews, I'd love to show you a good time!
- acchow 10y agoSki in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon? What month of the year? Whistler-blackcomb tops out at only 8000ft. Vancouver gets 1900 hours of sunlight a year. That's not a lot. Compare to Seattle (which is considered gloomy) at 2170 hours and SF at 3000 hours.
- cperciva 10y agoSki in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon? What month of the year? Whistler-blackcomb tops out at only 8000ft. March or April. We've had an exceptionally harsh winter this year (snow on the ground in Vancouver for weeks on end -- happens about once a decade) but usually around now people are admiring the cherry blossoms on their way to the beach. Whistler/Blackcomb has a perfectly skiable alpine through to the end of April, and you can ski past that if you want (but I wouldn't personally recommend it).
- acchow 10y agoOk, but even in May average high in Vancouver is 16.7C, average low of 8.8C. That's hardly beach volleyball weather. I'm skeptical of the claim that people ski in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon...maybe one or two lucky days a year? These are exactly the temperatures tons of people in this thread are saying is cold when referring to San Francisco. They actually correspond with March in SF.
- samfisher83 10y agoSF weather isn't that great. It cold and foggy. Socal has much better weather, but it isn't silicon valley.
- nickparker 10y agoThis is only true if you're right up on the Peninsula. The South Bay area where YC is located is gorgeous for a huge fraction of the year, and the East bay is at least far less cold than downtown SF.
- jonny_eh 10y agoEven the Peninsula (e.g. San Mateo or Redwood City) is significantly better weather wise compared to SF.
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- brianwawok 10y agoI laugh at your cold weather and point to Chicago
- ZoeZoeBee 10y ago5 months out of the year the average high in Chicago is above 70, SF only in September. I'll take 4 months of cold to 12 months of never warm
- lloydde 10y agoTo each their own. SoCal is too hot for many people. Your comment might seem to imply that SF weather is silcon valley weather. 30 minutes south the weather is consistently warmer though leave the coast a little ways and the tempature can also dip more at night. My family is from Victoria/Vancoucer and likes it cooler to enjoy active outdoor activities like running, biking and hiking. For this SF and Oakland weather is wonderful. I also work a few blocks from the ferry building and wear shorts near year round, though that isn't saying much spending all my time in a temperature controlled office.
- curiousfiddler 10y agoIn my opinion, Silicon Valley is what it is majorly due to the kind of people it pulls in. There are several other places in the world which have a much better weather than SV, but don't have this kind of an ecosystem.
- acchow 10y agoI don't mean people move to SV because of the weather. But if Vancouver somehow manages to have interesting and innovating tech companies, lots of jobs, high paying jobs, it would still be missing one key ingredient that California has - lots and lots of sun. Oh, and burning man. That might not be everyone's thing, but its culture permeates throughout the bay.
- c141charlie 10y agoVancouver's climate/geography is a feature, not a bug. Mountain biking, climbing, and skiing in Vancouver is amazing. And you don't have to drive two or three hours to get there. It's literally right outside your front door. This will be a draw for outdoorsy types.
- robotresearcher 10y agoAlso world-class scuba diving. Dry suit required, but lots of wildlife. Easy stuff and technical stuff available. Climb, ski, bike, dive, kayak, hike. Top vacation destination activities available every weekend.
- DannyBee 10y agoDry suit is pretty much required in Monterey in the bay area anyway, unless you are nutso and enjoy being really cold.
- robotresearcher 10y agoSnow sports are the answer to Vancouver winter gloom. I smile through the rain because I know it's snowing at Whistler. Enjoyed that snow today.
- thinkloop 10y agoCanada has lower corporate tax, liberal startup grants, greater income mobility, higher qol, health care, safer, more tolerance - but it's an itsy bitsy tad cold, no one goes.
- zeure 10y agoCalifornia's terrible (IMO alert) weather is the main reason I've never considered moving out there for a job.