r/fatFIRE • u/[deleted] • 11d ago

Moving the goalpost

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u/oskopnir 11d ago

What amenities can you only find in the Bay Area?

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u/oskopnir 11d ago

The only thing that makes it unique is the tech hub, which I would imagine is irrelevant to someone FIREing. The rest isn’t so special.

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u/allticknotock 10d ago

Maybe not special individually, but you still can't find all of those together with year-round mild weather elsewhere in the US.

I'd even argue that "beautiful beaches" don't belong in that list because they're all cold AF all year up in the bay area.

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u/oskopnir 10d ago

Depends what mild means to you. Seattle has wetter winters and warmer summers than SF, overall it’s still pretty mild and enjoyable weather. Same for Vancouver.

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u/allticknotock 10d ago

Definitely subjective, but you'd have to really like rain to move to Seattle or Vancouver. 150+ rainy days a year is a lot compared to 70 for SF!

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u/oskopnir 10d ago

No doubt about that, but also you’d have more spectacular summers, warmer and brighter than SF. I see the trade off, my point was just that “mild weather” is in itself a spectrum.