Re:Ask HN: Living in Bay Area
by davidw on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @05:58PM
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It's not going to be easy for you to move out there, since by and large the US is not very friendly to foreigners, in official terms (getting a visa), so why not take a good long trip there? Try and stay a month by renting a room for that time, and just hang out... see what happens, how you like it, what you don't like and so on. You could probably plan for and do that during the summer, although I think you'd be really pleased with how much better winters are in the bay area than at home...
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Thank you for your advice it really sounds good to me. Although I think I'm pretty flexible and you know if you are sick of something you will give everything to make your dream work.
I searched a little bit and found out that I have pretty good chance getting a visa for work (developers are needed, I will have a graduation, I'm young and so on).
Yeah winters here are kinda hard and pretty cold. How is summer in the bay area? Is it extremely hot? I checked some average weather data from san francisco and it looked pretty good to me.
Renting a room will be kinda pricy but you are absolutely right about trying first before I gave up everything.
The weather there is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. It rarely goes much below 10C in the winter, and it's not exceedingly hot in the summer either, unless you go far inland. It depends a lot where you are - it's much colder in the summer in San Francisco than, say, Fremont in the east bay.
In any case, yeah, go check it out, meet people, see what you think, and have some fun before you commit 100%.