Re:Ask HN: Best country for hackers to work/live in?
by byoung2 on Friday October 22, 2010 @08:47PM
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LA is a very big place, so there is a big variance between the coast (e.g. Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, South Bay) and the inland or valley areas. Usually the weather reports are almost like clockwork in an X/X+10/X+20 pattern: 70's at the beaches, 80's inland, 90's in the valleys.
If you want to stay cool and not too dry, it's not too expensive to live in the southern areas or even Long Beach.
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Having been to both of those places, I don't think of them that way. LA is hot as hell and very dry -- unless you are wealthy enough to be right on the beach (of course, you did say "coastal"). San Diego seemed to me a bit more temperate than LA but still quite dry. However, I spent like one day there, so my first-hand knowledge of that area is very limited.