Quality of life- the Bay Area has unrivaled weather: It sounds like you've never lived a whole year in SF weather! Although its nicer certain times of year in p

Quality of life- the Bay Area has unrivaled weather: It sounds like you've never lived a whole year in SF weather! Although its nicer certain times of year in palo alto or berkeley, etc. =] To answer your question, though: consider specialty niche. SV - For pure tech or big-blue-sky-idea-ish. Also, anything HW (viz apple, chips, tesla etc) or hands-on engineering. NY -Doesn't have the "tinker in the garage" culture traditionally, due to high-rent and lack of garages ;). But for Finance/BigCo, Avertising/ad-tech, Data Analytics, Specialty Retail/fashion/etc, or Old Media (copyright/music/publishing), and EMAE facing international markets it's very competitive. [ex-us] London - Similar to NY for specialty. Lacks the VC and start-up bench-depth of talent to some extent. Similar to SF weather, better nightlife and public tranist. More $$$.