I’m surprised you missed “weather” and “sunlight”. California’s weather is famously pretty good depending on location and preferences. More interesting to me i

I’m surprised you missed “weather” and “sunlight”. California’s weather is famously pretty good depending on location and preferences. More interesting to me is actually “how many sunny days are there”. Wikipedia has a list of cities by sunlight hours across a range of months [1]. San Francisco is quite sunny, and gets about 3000 hours per year. By contrast, Seattle is 2169 and has a pretty brutal cloudy period, if you care about this. Total sunlight hours aren’t themselves what matters, because I’m not saying Tucson is a strict improvement. There’s some sort of threshold though for which each person says “this place is depressing” (see also Seasonal Affective Disorder [2]). There are places that are pretty similar though: Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome, and probably others. They’ve historically faltered on a lot of “could be duplicated” items on your list. My bet is on Barcelona, as the most likely to break out. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_duration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_d... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder