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thanks but I find none of those unique to SF, you can get the same in other top cities. I don't know about Denver but in Boston/NY you have tons of good job opportunities, excellent engineering and scientific community with top firms/startups and excellent eng, business, and med schools. Close proximity to outdoors (New Hamshire, Maine).

No doubt there are more startups/jobs in SF but at the same time it seems that its very exaggerated.

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I don't know about Boston, but Maine is not in any sense close to nyc. I think the difference is distance. In sf, world class skiing is 3 hours away; the beach is 20 minutes in much of the city; great hiking is across the bridge in Marin or south along 1, well under an hour away. It's not a trip; enjoying the outdoors takes an afternoon. I have an acquaintance who works near the presidio and surfs over lunch. When I lived in Manhattan, you could definitely get to the outdoors, but it wasn't anything like this close.

As for jobs, I disagree. see eg:

machine learning, nyc: 1 responsive ad (plus ads for jobs in sfbay, nonresponsive android stuff) http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=machine+learn...

same search, sf: 10-15? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=machine+learnin...

indeed has similar ratios.

As for jobs in general, if you're a good js or rails engineer with a reasonable network of friends / former coworkers, starting now at 6pm Tuesday night you could have interviews on Friday, maybe even on Thursday. And start a new job next week. I believe there's a qualitative difference.

How many jobs if I'm getting close to 50? :-)

on the peninsula, plenty; in sf, work for a larger company or at least not for yc-aged / early 20s founders and you'll do ok

my oldest coworker, and this was at a < 10 person startup, was not a founder and was a line level search engineer and over 65.

You should check out Boston. Tons of tech jobs and way closer to skiing. When I studied in Cambridge we were only 2 hours away from skiing at Waterville, door to door even on weekends with "thick" traffic. There's a reason so many skiers are "Massholes." That quick jaunt up I-93 is fantastic.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Harvard+University,+Cambridg...

Also my dorm in Boston to Sunday River which is a huge ski area in upper Maine was just about 3 hours.

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