Seattle or Bay Area
I am considering relocating from New York to West coast. Which would you recommend in terms of job markets, life quality, gender ratio, and green card processing time? (I am in 485 adjustment of status, heard differen offices had different processing time)
Why? Stay in nyc - lived in both Bay Area and Seattle - neither is worth it
NYC summer hot af though
Suns out buns out bro
What are your interests outside of work?
Nature, at least not the city life like right now
Both are good for that. What is your opinion about rain / overcast weather?
Why would you leave the east cost? Only advice : don’t.
Bay Area Tenderloin best place to be.
East coast
I -> Seattle E -> Bay
In Seattle, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are all right next to each other. Tons of Amazon offices too.
Job market: Def SF. Outside of Amazon and MSFT, the Seattle office is #2 or lower for most large tech companies. Also, most hot startups or initiatives (currently AI/ML) are all centered in SF. Life quality: SF is much more social (probably because it's sunny). Seattlites really only hang out in the summer and in the winter, they all stay in unless you're a ski bum. Things close at 8 or 9 in Seattle and nightlife is really only in 2-3 neighborhoods. Gender ratio: Equal but I think it's easier to date in SF to be honest. If you're coming from the East Coast, good luck. You can put your Hinge in SF and Seattle and see how that goes, but guaranteed that on the East Coast, you get more likes. I think dating in Seattle is a bit tougher because people are way more coupled up than in SF where more people are single. Green card processing time: I don't think it matter - they're both rough on the west coast.
Nobody is living in Seattle/SF urban area. Seattle’s suburbs much safer comparing to rest of Bay Area
Bay Area = sun Seattle = rain
Haha, that is intuitive! What about others like job markets?
Same companies have branches in both cities so not very different. Bay Area has more.