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Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by ahoy »

ghaff wrote: post #119
jkelleyrtp wrote: post #104

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NC is a very temperate and beautiful place. Good prices and jobs too. If you live in the middle, both the ocean and mountains are 3 hours away.

Temperate is in the eye of the beholder :-) Pretty hot and humid in summer for my taste. That said, Asheville in particular often gets pretty highly ranked among small cities to live in and it's probably more comfortable in the summer than many other locations in the state.

Asheville is also one of most expensive cities to rent/buy in NC

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Post by ghaff »

ahoy wrote: post #181
ghaff wrote: post #119

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Temperate is in the eye of the beholder :-) Pretty hot and humid in summer for my taste. That said, Asheville in particular often gets pretty highly ranked among small cities to live in and it's probably more comfortable in the summer than many other locations in the state.

Asheville is also one of most expensive cities to rent/buy in NC

In general, there's probably a fairly high correlation between places that are more pleasant to live in (across multiple dimensions) and housing prices. Jobs, of course, being another major factor.

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Post by jakear »

smcl wrote: post #167
liversage wrote: post #127

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Medellín in Colombia sometimes described as the city of eternal spring is known for its perfect climate. In addition it's a very vibrant city.

Ha I didn't know it had a special name, I found out about Medellin's climate when I was looking for a place which had the consistency of Singapore's climate but about 5C cooler. I found that Addis Ababa and Kigali are pretty similar, and though it's a couple of degrees cooler Quito's climate seems quite appealing too. I've been to none of these cities so I've no idea what they're like to visit or live in, but when I'…

I’m discovering my secret (even to myself) ulterior motive in posting the above may have been to identify a cohort of fellow HN’ers looking for high quality of life per cost of living areas suitable for remote (co?)working.

I’m currently PNW lifestyle, but planning a lengthy expedition around South America starting later this year; email in bio for anyone still reading this thread and wanting to keep in touch.

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Post by encoderer »

bagels wrote: post #166
encoderer wrote: post #36

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I live in Berkeley now and would love to sell my house and move some place cheaper, but the weather here is just incredible. The only thing I would like is warmer nights but I can’t seem to find that without 90 degree days.

Coastal Southern California

Any specifics areas ?

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Post by martininmelb »

I love the map. I love the responsiveness. I have done things with Leaflet and geoJSON and have always wanted to do hexagons. How did you convert the temperature data to hexagons? Or, more specifically, create the tesselation of hexagons? (I would like to do something similar for Australia where I live)

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Post by dehrmann »

tigen wrote: post #114
Xcelerate wrote: post #79

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I lived in Redwood City for a few years. It was fantastic. We moved there from Tennessee, and after the first week we were like “wow, it has been clear blue skies every day this week!” After another four months with barely a cloud in the sky, it dawned on us that the climate really was quite incredible (although there are two seasons, “green” and “brown”, and the months are swapped from what they are in the southeast…

What I find is that a total lack of clouds can make the sunlight feel overly bright and intense. The dryness can also lead to a bit of dust in the air. This is pretty minor nitpicking overall, but the middle of the day can feel a little harsh for these reasons. The landscapes also get dried out. This is more noticeable in the south bay than SF and thereabouts

> This is more noticeable in the south bay than SF and thereabouts

That's probably why Redwood City wins. In the summer, if you take 101 from the Presido to Gilroy, there's a spectrum from cool, damp, and foggy to hot and dry. The happy median is between Millbrae and Santa Clara, but you have a dial you can use to pick anything in that range.

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Post by mannerheim »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #179
mannerheim wrote: post #150

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What's so special about the boiling point of water?

defining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense. Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.

Regardless, I don't see how in practice it matters that water boils at a hundred degrees. E.g., never when boiling water have I set a temperature.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

muzani wrote: post #163
ComputerGuru wrote: post #152

This is absolutely amazing but can I beg you to include an option to filter by dew point? I don’t care about hot but I cannot handle humidity!

Having stayed in Australia and the Middle East for a while, high temperatures like 40 C are very livable when it's dry. While 32 C can be terrible indoors where it's humid. My home/office is loaded with dehumidifiers.

The corollary to that: I'm from the Midwest where 40° F is t-shirt weather, but 80° in the Nevada desert doesn't feel much warmer than that.
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