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I live in Miami, and prefer Palo Alto weather much of the year.
I find staying inside where there is A/C and commuting in my car helps manage the heat.
I'm now working for a San Jose startup from North Carolina ... and not from RTP, but from a much less tech-focused area. My wife's family lives here and that's great for our daughter. Our house here costs 20% what an equivalent house would have in San Mateo, my bay area home from 1995 to 2013. This place has a nice downtown, a pretty diverse population (a lot of medical research and university action). The food's pre…
Winston Salem, per chance?
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Winston Salem, per chance?
Yep! Do you have experience with the town?
Something to consider is whether or not you've got kids. Right now my family lives in an affordable neighborhood with a tolerant culture and excellent public schools that my two kids attend. In Texas, it seemed more like getting a good secular education for your kids was something that you had to pay a lot for, one way or the other -- either living in a super affluent neighborhood or finding private schools. Financially, I think that I may actually come out ahead living in one of the so-called "education states."
Granted, my cultural biases show themselves in this post.
Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.
Maimi is pretty cool. It's too bad they're going to be underwater and the city mostly uninhabitable in about 10 years.
Probably longer than 10, but yeah, the point stands. Insightful article about the issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...
Ironically - that picture from the RS article is right in front of the 1Sale.com office. I feel compelled to share that it does not look like that often (maybe 1-2 days a year during hurricane season)!
I'm not sure if others have experienced this, but my brain doesn't function very well in tropical heat and humidity. It just seems to slow down, and mental games don't seem as interesting. It may be that I've been conditioned by many episodes of tropical vacations growing up, but whatever the reason, I can't (and indeed, don't really want to) code below about 30 degrees latitude.
I'm sure most start ups in Miami have A/C, so I'm not sure what your concern is. Most apartments too. Anyway, I live in an area that reaches 43c in the summer and -6c in the winter. When I first moved here it definitely threw me off, but I got acclimated to it quickly.
Minor editorial note: SFO is the airport, SF is the normal abbreviation for the city.
Not necessarily contradicting you, just offering another data point.