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Re:My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century... by FLUX-YOU on Saturday August 25, 2018 @10:46AM (#17840983)
The weather in Atlanta, Houston, Austin, and Phoenix is brutally hot and/or humid and shows no sign of getting a cooler average.

It's difficult to do stuff outside when it's that hot, especially as you get older.

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Re:My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century... by mmt on Saturday August 25, 2018 @04:46PM (#17842495)
(True also for Los Angeles, though at least that has the Pacific Ocean)

This is the (not so?) subtle quality-of-life aspect that people seem to forget when mentioning other cities as alternatives.

The Bay Area isn't popular/expensive solely due to network effects. Climate and geography (nearness to ocean, mountains) make it comparitively more appealing than the alternatives, for a variety of ages and lifestyles.

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Re:My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century... by zzzzzzzza on Saturday August 25, 2018 @05:41PM (#17842721)
Austin is way nicer than Houston or Phoenix, not sure about Atlanta. Acutally Austin/San Antonio pretty much has the nicest weather in texas. I'm from fort worth and fort worth gets both hotter and colder than austin - climate wise it's the california of texas (austin also has comfortable levels of humidity unlike houston).
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