Having moved from SF to Seattle, I just want to say that Seattle is terrible, and you should warn everybody you know to stay away.
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I prefer the Seattle experience of relatively temperate weather, year-round, to the Tucson experience of insane heat for about five months of the year. Obviously nowhere else in the U.S. is going to rival the weather experience of the CA coast.
Did you not read the article? :-) Seriously, summers in the city (of San Francisco) can be miserable, at least insofar as your definition of summer includes wearing fewer clothes and dining outdoors. In general the coast of California north of say, Seal Beach, is not an enjoyable place to be after sunset, anywhere. Even in LA it's usually about 60 at the beach in July at night. I've never understood the massive gap between marketing and reality when it comes to the weather in coastal California, despite having spent half my life here.
Medellín, Colombia is the place I have been that comes closest to achieving what California peddles.
It's nice to have an ocean-sized "hot water bottle", running at about 15C in winter.
I've got to object to this. Yeah, June and July (and to a lesser extent August) are pretty intense, but I'd hardly characterize the rest of the summer heat as "insane".
> I still a) went running most days,
I suppose this could be an issue. Especially during the summer rainy season (usually July-early September) it's still pretty hot and the humidity means it doesn't much cool off at night, which makes strenuous outdoor activity harder even if you do it at the coolest part of the day.
Maybe four months of insane heat: mid-May to Mid-September are ridiculous. I can't even ride a bike without sweating like a mule after a mile.