Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?

Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by Hydraulix989 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:17PM (#11250404)

I moved away from Seattle to the Bay Area partly because it was so damn depressing.

My company-sponsored doctor gave me a bottle full of two _GRAM_ pills of Vitamin D, and she said she has had to give it to most of her patients.

In the dead thick of the winter, it gets dark at 3 PM (after a 10 AM sunrise), and the rain literally never stops. When it's not raining, it's misting, and it will go weeks on end with everlasting gray skies and no sunshine.

Pittsburgh, comparatively speaking, was better because it snows off-and-on instead of constantly rains, and in January, the sun starts to come out again with blue skies, whereas Seattle stays dark, gray, and gloomy until summer.

Pittsburgh also wasn't as high up of a latitude either so the sunset would never happen earlier than 4 PM, instead of 3 PM.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by sitkack on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:35PM (#11250719)

Having just moved from Seattle to Chicago, and having returned for a long weekend during "the grays" cemented on of the reasons for the move. Beautiful place, but unless you actually get above the cloud cover and go skiing or snow shoeing, the overcast will kill your soul.

It doesn't take that many people to make a place amazing. Make amazing where you are.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by Johnny555 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:07PM (#11250856)

Vitamin D is typically dosed in I.U., not grams. 2000 I.U. is 50 micrograms.

The max recommended daily dose is 10000 IU (but people have taken higher doses).

2 grams would be 80 million IU.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by Hydraulix989 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:50AM (#11251187)

Good catch, units must have been IU then and not g.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by ctstover on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:25PM (#11250921)

This peaked my curiosity since I'm considering moving there. You must be exaggerating a bit since I just looked it up, and around the winter solstice the sun rise set times are like 7:55 - 4:20.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? ... by brewdad on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:32AM (#11267563)

Not Seattle but Portland. It's a slight exaggeration, but not by much. The dreary overcast skies mean that it can be "dark" an hour before the sun sets and doesn't get fully light until well after sunrise.

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