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The southern states are pretty great. ATL (hometown) is getting more expensive but has a pretty decent tech scene. Also the best airport in the US (direct fligh

The southern states are pretty great. ATL (hometown) is getting more expensive but has a pretty decent tech scene. Also the best airport in the US (direct flights everywhere). I've also been interested in North Carolina for a little while. Much more affordable (compared to PNW), and has some really nice areas (Asheville, Raleigh/Durham). But transportation is a bit more limited.

mgkimsal 4y ago
Had expected NC to show up on that list somehow, but with respect to raw % deltas, those other areas might still be having larger % growth (or shrinkage).
shmatt 4y ago
ATL averages about 33% more rain than Seattle Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter (albeit in the Summer and not Winter/Spring) in most of the south
- wing-_-nuts 4y ago
  More rain yes, but that rain comes down in heavy storms instead of miserable perma-drizzle and mist. This means even days with a forecast for rain will often be sunny until the front rolls through.
  - juve1996 4y ago
    Sunny and oppressively humid and hot.
    - wing-_-nuts 4y ago
      It's all relative. Atlanta is refreshingly cool compared to cities located closer to the gulf coast.
    - TrueGeek 4y ago
      With massive swings in barometric pressure. Atlanta is great for many things but I hate the weather here.
      - astrange 4y ago
        The weather is how you get all the trees, though. It's impressive to look at other cities' satellite maps and see a concrete jungle, then look at Atlanta and see it (or the suburban ITP parts anyway) looks more like a forest.
  - themanmaran 4y ago
    Plus the storms are really awesome. When I lived in SF I really missed the massive thunderstorms in Georgia. I only saw lightning 1 or 2 times in SF.
    - susanasj 4y ago
      same. almost complete lack of thunderstorms on the west coast kinda bummed me out when I lived there. spring/summer storms in the south rock
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter A lot of the drier parts of California, if you aren't tied to the LA Basin because you need local work, don't have as much of a housing problem, though. (That's also true of a lot of the wetter parts that you might chose to live in, if you aren't dependent on local work, too., though the wetter places that's true of often aren't the best places for the affordable, reliable high-speed internet you want for remote work.) If you’ve got a Seattle tech salary, and want a dry location, you can find plenty of places in California where you can live like a king. Though I suspect you could as well or better, in that regard just by moving to Eastern Washington instead of Seattle. US States are often neither climatically nor economically homogenous.
  - jeffbee 4y ago
    You can live like a king in Hanford on a tech salary, except you'd be like the king of Somalia. Not sure if that's the crown I want to wear. You're still paying $400k for a house but now you need private schooling and you have a 3-hour drive to the nearest thing that even resembles culture.
- ripper1138 4y ago
  Take it from people who have lived in Seattle, it’s not the amount of rainfall. In the winter months you can literally go weeks without seeing clear skies.
  - swearwolf 4y ago
    Light therapy and vitamin D supplements are essential in the PNW. They aren’t a replacement for the sun, but they can make it bearable to be without it.
havblue 4y ago
While the job market and the airport is great about ATL, I have to say the traffic, public schools, crime, etc are not great. Expensive housing as well, maybe not terrible compared to some places, though. Moving outside the perimeter doesn't help on the traffic front either. The south in general seems like a stable job market and place to buy a house for the decades ahead. However, it seems like Atlanta shifted from being a fast growing area to moderate growth a while ago.

mgkimsal 4y ago

Had expected NC to show up on that list somehow, but with respect to raw % deltas, those other areas might still be having larger % growth (or shrinkage).

shmatt 4y ago

ATL averages about 33% more rain than Seattle Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter (albeit in the Summer and not Winter/Spring) in most of the south

wing-_-nuts 4y ago
More rain yes, but that rain comes down in heavy storms instead of miserable perma-drizzle and mist. This means even days with a forecast for rain will often be sunny until the front rolls through.
- juve1996 4y ago
  Sunny and oppressively humid and hot.
  - wing-_-nuts 4y ago
    It's all relative. Atlanta is refreshingly cool compared to cities located closer to the gulf coast.
  - TrueGeek 4y ago
    With massive swings in barometric pressure. Atlanta is great for many things but I hate the weather here.
    - astrange 4y ago
      The weather is how you get all the trees, though. It's impressive to look at other cities' satellite maps and see a concrete jungle, then look at Atlanta and see it (or the suburban ITP parts anyway) looks more like a forest.
- themanmaran 4y ago
  Plus the storms are really awesome. When I lived in SF I really missed the massive thunderstorms in Georgia. I only saw lightning 1 or 2 times in SF.
  - susanasj 4y ago
    same. almost complete lack of thunderstorms on the west coast kinda bummed me out when I lived there. spring/summer storms in the south rock
dragonwriter 4y ago
> Honestly unless OP goes to California, where the housing situation is much worse, or middle of nowhere like Nevada, they're going to be much wetter A lot of the drier parts of California, if you aren't tied to the LA Basin because you need local work, don't have as much of a housing problem, though. (That's also true of a lot of the wetter parts that you might chose to live in, if you aren't dependent on local work, too., though the wetter places that's true of often aren't the best places for the affordable, reliable high-speed internet you want for remote work.) If you’ve got a Seattle tech salary, and want a dry location, you can find plenty of places in California where you can live like a king. Though I suspect you could as well or better, in that regard just by moving to Eastern Washington instead of Seattle. US States are often neither climatically nor economically homogenous.
- jeffbee 4y ago
  You can live like a king in Hanford on a tech salary, except you'd be like the king of Somalia. Not sure if that's the crown I want to wear. You're still paying $400k for a house but now you need private schooling and you have a 3-hour drive to the nearest thing that even resembles culture.
ripper1138 4y ago
Take it from people who have lived in Seattle, it’s not the amount of rainfall. In the winter months you can literally go weeks without seeing clear skies.
- swearwolf 4y ago
  Light therapy and vitamin D supplements are essential in the PNW. They aren’t a replacement for the sun, but they can make it bearable to be without it.

havblue 4y ago

While the job market and the airport is great about ATL, I have to say the traffic, public schools, crime, etc are not great. Expensive housing as well, maybe not terrible compared to some places, though. Moving outside the perimeter doesn't help on the traffic front either. The south in general seems like a stable job market and place to buy a house for the decades ahead. However, it seems like Atlanta shifted from being a fast growing area to moderate growth a while ago.