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in SF, summer is often colder than winter.

I've never lived in DC, but

  - presence of good chinese food
  - weather (even though I love winter weather, DC summers would not be worth it)
  - jobs (which companies have large presences in SF vs DC-area)

all conspire to make me completely incurious as to whether DC is "$11k/year" nicer than SF.

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DC, especially in the suburbs, also has very good Chinese food.

Ya, I think parent hasn't been to DC before.

And, as much as I hate DC, all kinds of other foods, including really great Ethiopian and Moroccan. But not good sushi (back when I lived there 7 years ago).

> in SF, summer is often colder than winter.

A common misconception, even among residents, easily debunked by paying attention or doing a quick Google search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;q=san%20francisco

SF itself has even more fine-grained microclimates than the peninsula (which only has a few). I didn't (immediately) find out how the wikipedia climate numbers were assembled nor what weather station(s) weatherspark gets data from, but if it's a single weather station, the data gathered is nigh-useless.

weatherspark looks very nice btw, I'm going to go look if they have an android app.... seems there isn't one. oh well.

Is there any neighborhood that experiences higher average temperatures in the winter? I've spent most of my time in South Beach, FiDi, and Outer Sunset, and while I never kept records, it always seemed to me like each of those had a higher average temperatures in the (late) summer.

Exactly. SF is expensive, but it's going to take a hell of a lot more than ~$1k/month disposable income for me to give up what that amount buys me in quality of life — for, admittedly, my definitions of "quality of life"; YM, as always, MV.

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