folks who worked in bay area and seattle, can you share the experience which one to prefer for a family with kids. i heard housing cost, schooling for kids, commuting is all high in bay area? how about seattle? any pros and cons on seattle and bay area?
Seattle: no state income tax, significantly less homeless defecating on the sidewalk on your way to work, way more doggies. Cons: crappy rainy gray weather.
If u r at QC in SD, don't go to either. They can't compare to SD. Very few places can compare to SD.
Seattle is preferable in every regard other than weather. It isn’t anywhere near as bad as people will lead you to believe, but there are many gray drizzly days.
79 sunny days a year... Chicago has about 189 That should give you perspective on just how cloudy and gray Seattle is
Seattle has 152 sunny days per year, national average is 200. Seattle gets 38 inches of rain per year, national average is 38. Chicago gets 189 sunny days per year. Stats from best places .net
Seattle, but consider living in a suburb. Can find exactly what you want in the surrounding areas, mass transit can help you reach work in the downtown Seattle core.
Much more expensive to raise a family in the Bay Area because you need to find good schools and those neighborhoods aren’t cheap. Having said that I still moved my family here from Seattle because I could not stand another dark, depressing winter in Seattle. I have not seen any homeless people in the Bay Area but then again I stay in my South Bay bubble.
It depresses me how the only mention of the homeless people in this thread is how they’re gross and inconvenient to the rest of us.
Yeah but this is blind. Most people here are chasing TC and a good life for themselves. A lot of growing up to do.
So how many have you let into your house since you seem to find them desirable?
Higher TC and better career prospects in the Bay Area more than offset the income tax and CoL. There’s a reason why Bay Area is expensive - because people want to be here.
Bullshit. I’ve worked top companies In SF, NY, SEA. Seattle FTW by a long shot. BA was great while it lasted, but there’s a reason that talent is moving North. Cheaper, lower taxes, and the future is cloud. Guess where the #1, 2, and (ironically 3) companies have their big cloud offices? FFS, even Oracle and Salesforce have a significant cloud presence here. The economy is diversified (not just tech). If you’re young, and want a good career launch and need a big name on the Resume, go to the Bay Area where you won’t mind 200k TC + roommates. When you’re ready to start a life without sacrificing a career, the summers more than make up for the rain.
Yes. Seattle is the ☁️ cloud capital. No wonder it rains so much.
I moved from Seattle to east Bay area a couple of months ago. Here are some of my first impressions of Bay area, overall service is bad (drugstore, restaurants, etc.), cost of living is high (e.g. housing, car registration, income state tax, etc.), tolls everywhere, road conditions are bad in general, heavy traffic everywhere and every day, the weather is great though and there are lots of tech jobs (much more than Seattle). In Seattle, well, the weather sucks most of the time, but people are polite and service is good in general.
I just plain hate Seattle in winter. Even the grey sky is fine but it gets dark by 4 pm!! When I get back home it's pitch black which is something I can't get used to. Makes me want to just sit at home and do nothing in the evening. It's also recommended to take vitamin D in Seattle which is not the case in bay area!
Seattle is expensive but cheaper than the bay. Both are chocked full of drug-abusing homeless. People in Seattle are introverted and the weather is a gray, damp hell. The bay is much worse though.