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Old 09-22-2014, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Buena Park, Orange County, California
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If you don't mind more Mediterranean climate and less tropical, than any of California's major cities will do...San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco (or at least the metros). Orange County (3 million people) is good too...it doesn't really have a central core, but it has a healthy economy (5% unemployment) and great beaches. It's just a little more conservative than L.A. and San Francisco.

There is also Honolulu, but I don't know how dynamic its business sector is. It's about the only tropical area I can think of with good surfing in the U.S. I'm not sure if Miami and Tampa have much of a surfing scene.
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Old 09-23-2014, 12:10 AM
 
Location: Buena Park, Orange County, California
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In Latin America, I would say Chile has the most dynamic business sector, and great surfing as well. So the Santiago metro might be an option if you don't mind picking up Spanish. Think of it as the California of South America...mountains, beaches, Mediterranean climate in some parts, vineyards etc. (earthquakes too! ha). Other than that, Panama City is exploding, so it will definitely have the business, especially due to international commerce, but I can't make a call on the surfing.
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Old 09-25-2014, 10:51 AM
 
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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The real tropical climate is warm-to-hot during the entire year and has only a dry and a wet season. Cities with many sunny days but cool winters don't have tropical climate. The climate may be subtropical or mediterranean. Thus, Santiago, Sydney, San Francisco, don't qualify as tropical.
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Old 09-25-2014, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
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The real tropical climate is warm-to-hot during the entire year and has only a dry and a wet season. Cities with many sunny days but cool winters don't have tropical climate. The climate may be subtropical or mediterranean. Thus, Santiago, Sydney, San Francisco, don't qualify as tropical.
Also I suggest the Sea Surface Temperature must be constant over 20°C(68°F) anytime of the year.
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Old 10-02-2014, 08:09 AM
 
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So not tropical.
well it's very difficult to find a city that has a purely tropical climate and a dynamic business sector, but I can think of many that have a subtropical one, like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Jeddah etc
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Old 10-02-2014, 10:15 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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No place in California is tropical.
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Old 10-02-2014, 10:17 AM
 
Location: San Diego, California Republic
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If you don't mind more Mediterranean climate and less tropical, than any of California's major cities will do...San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco (or at least the metros). Orange County (3 million people) is good too...it doesn't really have a central core, but it has a healthy economy (5% unemployment) and great beaches. It's just a little more conservative than L.A. and San Francisco.

There is also Honolulu, but I don't know how dynamic its business sector is. It's about the only tropical area I can think of with good surfing in the U.S. I'm not sure if Miami and Tampa have much of a surfing scene.
San Diego doesn't have much of a dynamic business sector. Nothing exist like the financial district of SF or LA's main business district.
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Old 10-03-2014, 10:10 AM
 
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I think the closest choice outside of Australia would be Honolulu.
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