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View Poll Results: Which city downtown would you choose to live? | |||
Manhattan | 23 | 22.55% | |
San Francisco | 16 | 15.69% | |
San Jose | 2 | 1.96% | |
Portland | 4 | 3.92% | |
Chicago | 13 | 12.75% | |
Miami | 9 | 8.82% | |
Different city downtown | 31 | 30.39% | |
Where ever Gaz lives. | 4 | 3.92% | |
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06-11-2018, 09:07 AM | #121 | |
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When I was in college I dated a girl from Johnson County. There was a severe thunderstorm warning. So I was trying (futilely) to look to the west to see what’s coming. She was stacking the shit on me because she honestly had no clue that: 1. There is a place on the planet that you can see a storm coming. And as a result 2. Storms come from the west. We argued for better than an hour that storms generally move west to east. It was then that I figured out that things are REALLY diffferent out here. |
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06-11-2018, 10:05 AM | #122 | |
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San Diego probably beats its weather tho.' |
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06-11-2018, 10:19 AM | #123 | |
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06-11-2018, 10:21 AM | #124 |
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06-11-2018, 10:41 AM | #125 |
It was not a fair catch
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But I am not ready to move back to the farm. 30 miles from civilization and the black hole of communications.
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06-11-2018, 10:41 AM | #126 |
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Chicago for me.
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06-11-2018, 10:46 AM | #127 | |
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06-11-2018, 10:46 AM | #128 |
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
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06-11-2018, 10:49 AM | #129 |
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I've always been kind of fascinated with NY without ever having been there. I don't know if I'd want to live there though.
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06-11-2018, 10:50 AM | #130 |
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Manhattan, for sure.
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06-11-2018, 11:06 AM | #131 |
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06-11-2018, 12:01 PM | #132 | |
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1. 90% of the year, the temperature is somewhere between 60 and 70 degrees with low humidity. If you work in the City, it is far better than the snow, subzero temps, incessant rain, 90% humidity or sweltering heat you get in most other big cities. Only San Diego has a more temperate climate. 2. When you visited, you encountered the summer fog. It comes in and cools off the city, but it comes in only part of the summer. If you check right now, I think it is 67 degrees, sunny and 54% humidity. A typical SF day. 3. Even when you get that summer fog, head 5 miles in any direction to get out of the fog belt and you'll be in temps often 20 degrees or more higher. Marin Headlands, Silicon Valley and East Bay are significantly warmer...spend a comfortable day at the office, then go home and sit by the pool. 4. If you are a food fan, some of the best restaurants in the world are in SF. 5. If you are a sports fan, SF has some of the top sport franchises in their respective league's histories. 6. If you are an arts fan, they attract most of the top exhibits shown internationally. 7. If you are a theater/ballet/symphony/opera fan, they have many of the top plays shown in NY or London and their arts are world class. 8. If you are a wine fan, they have world class wineries less than 1 hour away in Napa and Sonoma...each of which is beautiful and a great place to visit/vacation. 9. If you are ski/snowboarder, you have world class resorts 4 hours away in Squaw Valley, Heavenly...etc. 10. If you love the outdoors, you have marine sanctuaries, old growth redwood forests, and mountains for hiking all along the coast and in the Sierra's all within a half hour to 2 hours of the City, including Yosemite Valley (a bucket list destination). 11. If you're into paragliding or hang gliding, you have constant coastal on shore breezes that give you opportunities to get out 90% of the year. 12. If you are a water sports fan, you have abalone diving off the coast, sailing in the Bay, (cold) surfing on the Coast, scuba diving in kelp forests (the most unique diving I've ever done), water skiing on the Delta or on any number of lakes within 2 hours of SF, river rafting on the american and other rivers, and every type of fishing you can imagine. 13. If you're into golf, you have some of the top golf courses in the world all within 2 hours. 14. You have vibrant city life all over the City. 15. You have two of the greatest universities in the world within 20 miles, with world leading medical care and innovation. 16. If you want to start a business, there is more venture money circulating here than anywhere in the world. Need I go on? the big problem with SF, is that it's attractions are no secret, so (1) it is crowded, and (2) it is expensive. |
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06-11-2018, 12:10 PM | #133 |
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06-11-2018, 12:51 PM | #134 |
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I am a bit surprised Austin or San Antonio have not been brought up.
Personally, I would not mind living in NW Portland. I had a friend who lived there (about 11th and Gleason if memory serves) and it was a lot of fun just sitting out on the porch up a couple of stories and people watch. Also, having lived there for many years the weather would not really bother me any more than it did when I lived there. |
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06-11-2018, 01:02 PM | #135 | |
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Comparing the rainfall to Seattle is like comparing a tooth ache to a broken leg. I don't want either of them. |
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