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I thought there were a few more, and it turns out, its only a couple more.
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It was off the top of my head, but I was thinking that Australia probably would qualify (the gold coast). I’ve been to Chile, and I thought that around Valparaiso (near Santiago) would be pretty nice, but I was only on the coast way far south where it was butt ass cold.
I was just thinking that maybe the dry side of the big island of Hawaii might qualify, even though I’ve never been there (I was thinking about buying some land with a friend there).
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Now that one depends a lot on where you live in the city. SF ( and the Bay Area in general, but SF is a microcosm for this sort of thing ) has a crazy number of microclimates and my old place in the Sunset District, three blocks from the beach, was definitely NOT sunny most days of the year.
Which is fine with me, I like overcast and misty. But much of San Francisco is not a warm city much of the year.
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Yes, SF itself is usually nice in the day, but after dark, that cold sea breeze comes in and freezes many tourists. :eek:
SJ is very nice year around. So is SLO, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Santa Cruz, and just about every coastal town beteen SF and Santa Monica.
Houses here in SJ run around $700K (but going down), with condos half that. Right now, the market would be right to buy a condo here. In Palo Alto, some other small ritzy towns, and certain areas of SF, the prices can get really crazy, though.
San Diego is much hotter. Still, most dudes would think the weather was delightful; and it is, by and large.
[QUOTE=gazpacho]
If you look at the wiki link form Great Dave you will notice that all the places border the ocean. Certainly in southern California once you get away from the ocean the temperature variation starts to go up a lot. It gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
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And they seem to be mostly on western coasts.
[QUOTE=I Love Me, Vol. I]
And they seem to be mostly on western coasts.
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That is probably due to the jet stream blowing ocean air inland. It is only hot in coastal San Diego when the Santa Anna winds blow from inland out to the coast.
The question as stated is perfectly legitimate if not a little odd in its naive confidence but there is some pretext that most people would want to live in San Francisco’s climate. I don’t think that is true for most people anywhere let alone most Americans. There is a supposed quote from Mark Twain that goes something like: “The coldest winter of my life was a summer in San Francisco”. Now the actual quote is almost certainly false but the sentiment remains. I have been to San Francisco and enjoyed it very much but that was travelling from Boston in January and it seemed nice and cool unlike the cold weather we had back home. The problem is that if I visited San Francisco on the 4th of July, it would be basically the same thing and I would get highly ticked off just for one weekend let alone living there.
Being a nice Southern boy, I hate the cold weather of New England but at least it does get hot here at least part of the year. That means nice beach days, BBQ’s, you name it. The ocean water off of Boston gets warmer than it does off of Los Angeles let alone San Francisco for God’s sake. Obviously, the more southern parts of the East Coast is even much more favorable in terms of nautical recreation. The weather may be consistent if not on the cool side but that consistency comes at a drastic price. It doesn’t appeal to most people although it seems to be popular with the housing challenged set. San Diego may be a better example but the water is still too cold to be of much use.
A cactus expert once told me that Poway (NE of San Diego) had a “really long thermometer”. I can’t find a cite, but the term describes micro(?)climates with wide temperature variances over given periods of time.
[QUOTE=blondebear]
A cactus expert once told me that Poway (NE of San Diego) had a “really long thermometer”. I can’t find a cite, but the term describes micro(?)climates with wide temperature variances over given periods of time.
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I’ll still bet that it’s nothing like North Dakota (-40 to over 100 every year) or just about any other state in the north central U.S.
In fact, the temperature variations there are far more extreme than Upstate New York, which almost never goes below 0 or over 100. The coastal Atlantic region is even more moderate, with temperatures rarely below 20 and of course, only 10-20% of the annual snow. Water is a major moderator of weather. However, the Great Lakes do cause higher snowfall, especially lake affect snow which can get enormous.
Most people do prefer warmer weather - if they can alleviate the worst of the heat. That is obvious from the gigantic internal migration from the northeast to the south and west since the widespread use of air conditioning after WWII. Housing prices are low everywhere across the old Rust Belt and into the North Central states. Commutes are also minimal. However, all the jobs and people have left and are not returning. Why? The answer has to be that warm, even hot weather is preferred to an overwhelming extent, even to the point of apparently ruining the rest of peoples’ lives.
You know what people in Rochester call a 60 minute commute? Buffalo.
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Nice year round weather is pretty rare. I read somewhere that there are only 3 Mediterranean climates on the planet. The west coast of California, the Mediterranean, and** the Indian Ocean side of South Africa**.
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More where the Atlantic and Indian Ocean meet, actually. The Indian Ocean coast is too tropical, the Atlantic too desert.
[QUOTE=Shagnasty]
The question as stated is perfectly legitimate if not a little odd in its naive confidence but there is some pretext that most people would want to live in San Francisco’s climate.
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If you notice the OP, you will see that I mentioned “SF Bay Area” climate and not SF climate. SF itself has horrible climate, IMO (fog and cold)
Also, I didn’t assume that most people would prefer the Bay Area climate, but I do (and it also seems that enough other people do too, driving house prices very high)
I did not know that. Thanks for the info. Nice warm beaches are something I miss up here in Northern California.
Hmmm, maybe I should have started an IMHO thread with “Name the things you like and dislike about the weather where you live” to get information that can only be found by living in a place for a couple of years.