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I am genuinely curious about what’s the appeal of SF?
by uvdn7 4y ago
I am genuinely curious about what’s the appeal of SF?
- mmmpop 4y agoThe weather is mild and predictable for large portions of the year. Good seafood, killer Asian cuisine, and Union Square has an AG store for your quality pant needs. What more could one want?
- x3n0ph3n3 4y agoPeople really fail to grasp just how awesome the weather is.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoSan Diego weather is better.
- bombcar 4y agoDepends on exactly what weather you want. There’s a statistic called degree days https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/degree-days.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/de... and by some calculations Santa Barbara wins. The whole California coast is pretty moderate. Once you’re a bit from the ocean it can be pretty nice year-round, many houses don’t have heating or cooling to speak of.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoSF is a little chilly for my taste, and who really likes fog?
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoIf you’re without 20 minutes of the ocean that is! Once you go east of La Mesa the summer days are pretty warm and USA’s most expensive electricity rates become more painful
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoThe food is good, the weather is perfect, you can walk around and it's dense but not too dense, the views are insane.
- thakoppno 4y ago> the views are insane This is my primary explanation when I lived in the city. I would walk my dog to the top of Buena Vista park nearly every morning at sunrise and marvel at the city in awe.
- maerF0x0 4y ago> the weather is perfect, Just to clarify for those who won't fully understand this. The temperature range is very tight and mild so you don't need to think very hard about how to dress for the elements. For me jeans and a tshirt was basically year round attire. When it rained the extra warmth of a rain jacket was enough to offset the slightly cooler weather. You can run outdoors year round, save for a couple weeks of heat wave, or a bit in the "winter" if you refuse to run in the rain. However, it's not the sunny beach, wear a bikini / no shirt weather that many have come to understand of California from hollywood movies.
- raverbashing 4y agoInvestors that want to put money in hypergrowth world-scale companies don't want to have meetings outside of a 10-min walk radius
- zachthewf 4y agoIt still has a better early stage startup community than any city on the planet.
- ltbarcly3 4y agoIt did until about 2019. Now the best early stage startup community is in this place called Remote.
- GoldenRacer 4y agoI'm not a big fan of SF and have only been twice but I see the appeal. There are a ton of job opportunities for tech workers (yes, there are a ton of opportunities for SWEs just about everywhere but SF is another level, especially if you like startups). Weather there is almost always reasonably comfortable. You're on the ocean. Mountains for skiing/snowboarding, hiking, climbing, whatever else you might want to do are close enough that you can reasonably drive to them on the weekend. And it's got all the standard big city things: diverse selection of really good food, live music, clubs/night life, an lgbtq+ scene, art, just lots of culture in general.
- verisimilitudes 4y agoDiversity.
- itisit 4y agoThere is a glorious harmonic resonance to being in the choral company of others espousing the same delusional views on technology, society, etc.
- robotburrito 4y agoWalkable, amazing weather, tons of beauty, interesting people, 15 minute bike ride from some of the most beautiful spots in the entire world.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoWho wants to take a 15 minute bicycle ride in a city full of junkies? Schwalbe make some great commuting tires but I doubt they can withstand discarded needles.