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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by lotsofpulp »

thefringthing wrote: post #77
rgmerk wrote: post #65

If your methodology for identifying "cities with nice weather" returns Reykjavik in its top ten, either your sample only includes places with terrible weather, or your methodology is completely whacked. Reykjavik is a wonderful little city, but it's cold, extremely windy, and often very miserable. The place with the most pleasant weather I've ever experienced is probably the area around the Gold Coast, Queensland, Au…

My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like. I didn't include humidity, precipitation, wind, etc., mostly because I threw this together in an hour or so and didn't intend for it to be a "serious" analysis, just a novelty.

Temperature on its own is a meaningless metric when discussing how comfortable the weather is. I’ll take a dry 115F than a humid 90F.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by adanto6840 »

rootw0rm wrote: post #104
jaggederest wrote: post #9

Another interesting measure for these purposes is "heating degree days" and "cooling degree days", i.e. how much the outside temperature varies from indoor temperature. One of my former coworkers who lived in San Diego said that people there complain whenever the temperature outside is different than the temperature inside, and sure enough, it's the lowest by summed heating and cooling degree days in the US.

that may be true...but as someone who's lived in San Diego before, I can say that the weather and pretty much everything else there, except the traffic, is pretty awesome.

Don't forget to include the cost-of-living and the taxes, along with the traffic.

The weather is quite nice -- but if you really like/want to experience distinct seasons throughout the year, then the lack of variability may leave you dissatisfied.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by ido »

Hamuko wrote: post #138
t-3 wrote: post #136

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Those are only problems for people not used to driving and walking in snow. Rain gets you wet, which is way worse than any snow.

Good to know I haven't gotten used to driving and walking in snow. Guess what also gets you wet? Snow. It'll even get you wet when it isn't snowing, since it stays on the ground, and for a very long time.

I think it really depends. Here (northern Germany) you don't really get a lot of snow. So a bit of snow & the accompanied very dry weather is significantly nicer than the cold, damp ~0-5c rain you'd otherwise get in winter. The snow usually doesn't pile up high enough to really be a problem.

So the choice here is "slightly below 0 with a bit of snow" or "slightly above 0 with rain". It's not like crazy canadian levels of "a meter of snow and -30c" type situation.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by thefringthing »

alkonaut wrote: post #113

Let’s zoom in on the interesting bit. zooms in on Edinburgh, Dublin and Reykjavik My gut feeling tells me high altitude southern cities are stable around “room temperature” (like Mexico City and La Paz) but if one doesn’t mind 30C for a few weeks, then of course a lot more cities in the Mediterranean, California, Australia etc are also in play. I take it the person writing the article prefers anything , including a c…

> I take it the person writing the article prefers anything, including a constant drab rain, to ever having -15C or +30C.

That's about right. I don't mind -15C so much but don't care for anything below about -20C or above 20C. I don't like rain either but I think I'd put up with it for a narrow enough temperature band.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by turtlebits »

sangel wrote: post #18
onionisafruit wrote: post #3

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Seattle has pretty good weather too, if you only consider temperature.

It is 40 degrees F right now… in mid May. And has been all month and basically all year since last November. I don’t see how you can call that good temperature.

It was absolutely beautiful on Tues/Wed. High 50's and sunny. (Maybe I'm used to it, but 40s/50s in the spring when the sun is out is unbeatable).

IMO, Seattle has the best summers (save last years heat wave). Nice weather from May - September.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by thefringthing »

basicform wrote: post #155
rgmerk wrote: post #65

If your methodology for identifying "cities with nice weather" returns Reykjavik in its top ten, either your sample only includes places with terrible weather, or your methodology is completely whacked. Reykjavik is a wonderful little city, but it's cold, extremely windy, and often very miserable. The place with the most pleasant weather I've ever experienced is probably the area around the Gold Coast, Queensland, Au…

Yes - be warned - this is a trap. We first named Greenland Greenland to trick people to go there instead of Iceland. Now we want people to come - so we are manipulating math and logic on a scale never seen before. Be vary of any data that points to Iceland as being a good place to live in terms of weather. The truth is "in Iceland, the weather is trying to kill you!"

My takeaway from reading Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða was that Iceland is where you went when you got kicked out of Norway for killing too many people, and Greenland is where you went when you got kicked out of Iceland for killing too many people.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by bogomipz »

presentation wrote: post #119
bogomipz wrote: post #34

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Did you move there from SF? Do you work in tech? I'd be curious to hear how it is if so. My understanding is that they just announced they are going to let international travelers back in June.

I moved from SF, I work in tech, it is awesome (but don’t work for a Japanese company unless you want to get underpaid and overworked, foreign firms are much better).

Did you transfer then with a company you were already working for? Tokyo?

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by rynbill »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #193

The Mediterannean seaside. The french riviera, Italy, Croatia. I spent lots of time in Spain (Valencia): way too warm in the summer IMO (too much south) and the spanish kinda build fugly buildings along the entire coast, ruining it (compared to France, the difference is staggering). Here on the french riviera / Cote d'Azur I get to type this while watching the sea and I get my kid to the village's school while drivin…

Are you an expat? I’ve been dreaming about a relocation to this area but I don’t know where to start.
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