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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:11AM (#18110574)
The San Francisco Bay Area is the only part of the US with a Mediterranean climate.

As I said, there are many factors, weather being just one.

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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by dragonwriter on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:22AM (#18110854)
> The San Francisco Bay Area is the only part of the US with a Mediterranean climate.

No, it's not. A significant fraction of California outside of the Bay Area, and some of Oregon and, IIRC, Washington also does.

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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:24AM (#18110865)
I stand corrected:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate

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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by dragonwriter on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:38AM (#18110917)
“Good weather” is highly ambiguous. “Mediterranean climate” (while there is some fuzziness at the boundary) is much less so.

While the initial claim was slightly overstated in claiming uniqueness, the SFBA is pretty special in that regard.

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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:41AM (#18110934)
This is a more specific statement of what I mean by good weather:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110598

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Re:California state law mandates female board directors by 2019 by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:46AM (#18110714)
The San Francisco Bay Area has more than 100 cities. I don't live there. I have never lived in San Francisco and I moved away from the Bay Area many years ago.
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