Zurich (which is mentioned in the article) sees ~1,500 hours of sunshine a year [1]. That's absolutely horrendous and not "lots of sun" by any measure.

I grew up in a place in France that gets slightly more sun than Zurich. I now live in the Bay Area Peninsula with 3,000+ hours of sunshine a year and the difference is incredible, especially in winter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur...

> San Francisco is famously non-sunny (all that cloud).

San Francisco is on a peninsula, so it gets lots of fog. Its weather pattern does not represent the area in general.

San Jose is further inland and very sunny most of the year.

Today SF high will be 66F and San Jose 75F; big difference but in either case its mid-October and still t-shirt weather.

> Salaries are certainly not capped at 140k CHF, I've seen a number of job ads for 180K CHF Are you speaking about CH or USA? Because in CH it pretty much seems to be capped at 140k CHF and below. Unless you are speaking of a very specific role/technology stack.

I was applying for roles recently that were as high as 180K CHF (and that wasn't FAANG).

Can you share some company names? Seems rare

One I applied for recently was dacadoo[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacadoo

> San Francisco is famously non-sunny (all that cloud).

Used to be true, but less and less given climate change