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Well Vancouver still has more days in the 70sF and 80sF than San Francisco, and Vancouver is sunny in the summer, in contrast to the foggy, 60F in the Bay.
Well Vancouver still has more days in the 70sF and 80sF than San Francisco, and Vancouver is sunny in the summer, in contrast to the foggy, 60F in the Bay.
The Bay Area has tremendous range and in us much warmer in general than Vancouver. The western peninsula and SF proper are the coolest parts. SF also has wonderful falls. October is warm in the City.
Greater Bay Area (sans SF) > Vancouver > Greater Vancouver (sans city proper) > San Francisco
The Greater Bay Area can truly be an amazing place to live, but I like Vancouver much better as a city than San Francisco. I find Vancouver to be much friendlier (even if it is more "superficial" as some Canadians say), cleaner and better operated than SF. The rest of the Vancouver region is very nice and livable, too, but I can find towns like and as nice as North Vancouver, White Rock and Surrey just as easily along the peninsula just south of San Francisco but with more local, fresh food, seemingly unlimited coastal parks, and better train access on top of cheaper fuel (relative to Canada).
Cost of living between the two metropolises is pretty much comparable, I think.
SF is cool yes, but all you have to do is drive over a bridge and you can get in the 100s many days by not going very far...
San Francisco is cool for sure, all year round. I think most people who visit San Francisco, fly in, hit the city and thats it. They'd have no idea of the micro climates in the Bay Area.
Vancouver is a beautiful city and I love it every time I visit, but culturally and intellectually this comparison is frankly a joke. You want to put UBC up against UC Berkeley, Simon Fraser up against Stanford? What is the Vancouver equivalent of Silicone Valley? Food? The Bay Area has changed the way the middle class world eats in that is ground zero for the locavore movement. From Jack London to the beat poets, the Bay Area has had a huge impact on the way the English-speaking world thinks and writes. Vancouver, not so much. Vancouver, while a beautiful city, has contributed slightly less to world culture than Cleveland and way less than Dallas. I could happily live in Vancouver, but it is basically Cape Town, South Africa, with marginally better race relations and much worse weather. It is not in the Bay Area's league.
Honda is a best car to own but most people would prefer to drive a Ferrari.
I would say this though, Vancouver didn't earn that title for nothing. People more in tune in what we are talking about gave them that title.
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