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Tech isn't some niche industry. LA tech companies don't offer the same equity packages, and the selection of employers is more limited. LA is better if you're in the arts or entertainment. SF has way more high end jobs per capita.
Much of LA is also "hidden" if you don't know about it. I know people who've been to LA 30 times and never been to Silver Lake, K-town, Echo Park, or even Griffith Observatory. SF is more like a dense, eastern city where most people see or visit the Ferry Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Marina, etc.
I vote for........the state of California....which no state can compete with when it comes to its two most stellar cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Texas comes in a distant second and Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania barely make the radar screen.
Ideally neither and that is the beauty in there being an entire planet full of cities outside of these two.
However, in the context of this comparison where an individual must simply pick and choose one of the two selections given, then my answer is the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Tech isn't some niche industry. LA tech companies don't offer the same equity packages, and the selection of employers is more limited. LA is better if you're in the arts or entertainment. SF has way more high end jobs per capita.
Much of LA is also "hidden" if you don't know about it. I know people who've been to LA 30 times and never been to Silver Lake, K-town, Echo Park, or even Griffith Observatory. SF is more like a dense, eastern city where most people see or visit the Ferry Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Marina, etc.
But isn't that every city? I know many people who visited DC dozens of times and never been to Anacostia, Frederick Douglas' house, Deanwood, Petworth, Hillcrest, Fort Dupont and many others. With NYC I know people who never set foot in Harlem and Brooklyn but visited NY many times.
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Lived in SF (Marin) and SoCal (OC and SD, not LA—but visited quite often when I lived in OC).
SF is the more sophisticated city with access to more “nature” oriented things that I preferred more (Mt Tamalpais, Carmel, Napa/Sonoma, Lake Berryessa/Clear Lake, Yosemite, Tahoe—maybe because the Bay Area is more greener for greater periods of the year) and a more gritty, grounded populace that, as an ex NY’er, I had more in common with. Best commute in the country was when I took the Tiburon or Larkspur ferry to and from work in downtown SF. Deer would come up to me when I went for my morning jog...ran into more celebrities when I lived in Marin (Bob Weir, Bill Graham, Joe DiMaggio, Journey, Larry Hagman, Mary Martin, Rosie Casals, etc etc etc)...SF Bay Area companies have transformed the world. I actually felt very sad when I had to leave the Bay Area.
LA/SoCal has better weather (actually, there are many microclimates in both areas but, in general, it rains less in SoCal and is warmer in the winter months), better beaches, better looking women, but had a Peter Pan syndrome to it, it felt as though I was on the set of Groundhog Day, more people trying too hard to impress me (they often failed to) and when it was time for me to leave I missed my 5-6 solid friends (all but 1 not from SoCal) but not the area. People very sensitive and insecure—if you said anything negative about the area you would receive an infantile response of, if you don’t like it here why don’t you leave. Preferred the vibe and sexiness of LA to other areas of SoCal—more alive, cutting edge, open minded and diverse. Seems as though those from other areas of SoCal are quick to diss on LA and tell you “we’re not LA” or some dog whistle term such as “we prefer it here where it is clean and safe” yet include their proximity to it (day trip) as a benefit when defending the other areas they live in. Strange love/hate (envy?) with LA from these other areas within SoCal.
There was also a looking down at and/or hatred from SF people towards LA, which most Angelenos seemed unaware of and/or oblivious to.
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I vote for........the state of California....which no state can compete with when it comes to its two most stellar cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Texas comes in a distant second and Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania barely make the radar screen.
LA and SF in one state: that's pretty incredible.
Lol that's not the question of the OP or point of the poll.
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