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People move to places for their best features but move out due to their worst features. How long you stay depends on how long you can tolerate the worst features, not how soon you tire of best ones (which is often ‘never’) “Fire pollution” might turn into the west coast killer.
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My list of worst features: Ann Arbor: snow Austin (circa 2001): self-absorption Ithaca: too small Rochester: snow, provincialism DC: anti-intellectual wasteland Vegas: sheer trashiness, soul-sucking desert starkness Seattle: Fire pollution, insularity Los Angeles: Fire pollution
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I’m rating SoCal vs other places mostly based on how many days I have to shut all doors and windows. Other cities I have to shut the house due to crummy weather. Here it’s the few bad weather days + smoke days.
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