Heroes

I think I was a bit vague on my initial post and it just went out of track. There was no way I can edit my initial post, hence, I have started this new thread. I do hope that the admin and mods understand.

There are possible jobs for me in (Texas, NJ, Arizona, California, NY, Florida...) It'll be an EB immigrant visa. I would like to gather more info from a variety of sources to help me decide.

Weather is a big factor. We prefer a mild weather between 15-28 C and definitely lots of sunshine.

We'd been in Florida on holidays, but it can be excessively humid at times. Not to mention the hurricanes.

This is why California is my first choice. Anyone from California here at all?

surly

California you can pretty much choose your climate or terrain, from beaches to forests, from desert to mountain.
Near the coast is cool, with little temperature variation year round.
San Francisco has about 12 deg F variation from hot to cold.

Further inland can get very hot, 100+ San Jose is a good balance.

Personal preference for me is the SF Bay Area or the Central Coast, Monterey to Santa Barbara.

Caligirl4ever

Me! There are loads of ppl on this board from Nor Cal. I recommend you reading, asking and searching on http://www.city-data.com/forum/california/ Everyone is very friendly and helpful.

ian1976

You've pretty much described the weather here in San Francisco, although the sunny bit can depends on where exactly in the city you are!

Bob

Next question that might be the deciding factor, what's your budget on housing? And you got family/kids?

California is pretty huge, a lot of variation depending on where you live...if I had a choice, San Diego or Sacramento sound pretty good to me, but that's me.

If your not into heat/humidity, I'd rule Florida, Texas and Arizona out.

NY gets cold in the winter, barmy cold...so you might not be interested in that, and taxes can be pretty bad.

for NJ, do a search for posts by Englishmum, she's posted loads of info about places to stay out there.

Poppy girl

I Don't live in the nicest location but its conveniant for me work wise Modesto.

San jose not if you paid me hate the place.
San Fran nice place but would not want to live there,I want to be this side of the bridge when the quake happpens, and it will sooner or later plus its so cold in the summer no thanks.
Monterrrey too stuck out on a limb.
Fresno area forget it total dump.

Don't forget all the above have good and bad parts like anywhere

Pleasanton, Dublin, Danville,San Ramon,Walnut Creek

Sacramento parts of it.

Be prepared as Surly said it gets really hot here in the valley unbearable.

SagenOnion

They may not respond until they get back from fire evacuation.

English Muffin

Are Texas and Arizona humid? I always assumed they had dry climates.

ugacrew

Arizona is relatively dry but really hot. Texas can be humid with warm winds from the Gulf area. Texas can be hotter an' stuffier than an armpit.

SagenOnion

Arizona gets the monsoon at a certain time of the year which is humid and along with the heat, to me, is almost unbearable.

Kali-forniarrr

Hi, another Norcal'er here.

No brainer really. Depends where you will be working, work back from that.

Coast is cooler than inland and consequently more expensive. Both in temp and otherwise.

Michael

In the San Francisco bay area, the summers are not too hot and the winters are mild.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/drivi...tomnav_driving

Most homes along the SF bay do not have air conditioning and is usually not needed due to the cool nights caused by the fog coming into the bay through the Golden Gate bridge and pushing down the bay during the summer. Only once or twice during the summer does a hot spell occur (usually about 5 days) and a house can overheat when the fog does not come in.

Usually the fog burns off no later than 8 am and arrives after midnight in the south bay (San Jose area). As you get closer to San Francisco, the fog arrives earlier and stays longer making the temperatures in San Francisco much cooler than the south bay. On the western side of San Fransico (pacific ocean side), the fog can remain all day.

Temperatures along the coast (Santa Cruz, Monterery, Carmel, etc.) will normally average about 10ºF-15ºF cooler than the temperatures around the bay (Santa Cruz mountains between the areas). Temperatures east of the east bay hillls (Pleasanton, Livermore, Danville, etc.) will average about 10ºF-15ºF hotter than temperatures around the bay.

It is an unusual occurance for rain to occur in the bay area during the summer and the days are usually bright and sunny (excluding San Francisco if the fog is in). This year the fires in northern California have created bad air quality in the south bay for about 2 weeks so far.

surly

Grocery Shopping California style.

Poppy girl

lol never a truer word spoken

Bob

they're hot, really hot, and that was out along with humidity...plus houston is a sweat box...