<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanz</author><text>Weather.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m a Californian who grew up in a &quot;sunny&quot; California city, and I&apos;ve been living in Seattle for the last year.  I&apos;ve also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.&lt;p&gt;I, miss, the, sun.  Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West.  I&apos;ve had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.&lt;p&gt;The moral of my own personal story is... I&apos;m moving back to California.  I need sun.  I&apos;ll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.&lt;p&gt;How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle?  If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it&apos;s cheaper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I&apos;ve had a coworker who used to work at Microsoft say the same thing.  She liked Seattle, but when it came down to not seeing the sun from Nov-Mar in Seattle vs. not seeing a cloud in the sky from May-Oct in Silicon Valley, it was a pretty easy choice.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m curious how both compare to Portland, which has been a popular destination for burnt-out Bay Area hackers of late.  I&apos;ve heard it&apos;s somewhere in-between.  The one time I visited it was nice and sunny, but then again, it was August.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m also wondering how they compare to the east coast.  I was born &amp;#38; raised in the Boston area, which has a reputation for terrible weather.  But Boston is highly seasonal: you get to May, when you have wonderful 70-degrees sunny days, and think &quot;This is what I shoveled all winter for.&quot;  I almost think that&apos;s nicer than the Bay Area, where you get inured to the nice weather after a while and start to take it for granted.</text></comment>
<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanz</author><text>Weather.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m a Californian who grew up in a &quot;sunny&quot; California city, and I&apos;ve been living in Seattle for the last year.  I&apos;ve also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.&lt;p&gt;I, miss, the, sun.  Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West.  I&apos;ve had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.&lt;p&gt;The moral of my own personal story is... I&apos;m moving back to California.  I need sun.  I&apos;ll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.&lt;p&gt;How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle?  If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it&apos;s cheaper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squidbot</author><text>I grew up in Berkeley and lived in the Bay Area until I was 27. I moved to Seattle 13 years ago and have no plans to return. I don&apos;t miss the weather at all, in fact I enjoy the generally cooler summer and actually having some variation (I lived in Boston for a year and actually like having more defined seasons, but the cold and heat did get to me.)&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I can&apos;t ever see myself moving back to CA. The cost of living is definitely better, I find people much less self absorbed up here, and I love the scenery. The latter is probably the biggest factor, it&apos;s so incredibly beautiful up here I couldn&apos;t bear to leave the trees, mountains and islands.</text></comment>