Humidity is the devil

I know this has been talked about ad nauseam on here, but I'm gonna put a spin on this. I live in DC which is a swamp, no pun intended, and I'm thinking of uprooting and going somewhere new. A lot of the posts on here are about NYC vs LA vs Chicago etc in terms of nightlife, cost of living, and all that, but I'm specifically looking for mid to preferably larger cities that have low level of humidity and a sizable enough financial industry. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

LOL... Let's run down the list (in no particular order):

1) NYC - Humid and stinks like garbage during the summer (I live here, it's a love / hate relationship), but has great nightlife and things to do, plus flights from here to anywhere you'd want to go are available 2) Chicago - Humid and has terrible pizza 3) SF - Great temperate weather, but more expensive than NYC and not as good nightlife (IMO) 4) Boston - Humid and has terrible accents 5) Los Angeles - Dry heat, but terrible people 6) Miami - No... just no 7) Atlanta - Humid and have fun in retail 8) Charlotte - Humid and have fun in retail 9) Houston - The mother of all suck

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BobTheBaker:
Yea I would stay FAR AWAY from Houston if you can't do humidity. Dallas has a pretty robust finance scene and is much less humid than Houston/ NYC etc.

Dallas finance scene is in one building basically. If you ever have to go to that one building be ready for clownish pocket squares and no socks and loafers types trying to act cool. Dallas is like the LA of Texas - douchebaggery runs high

 

Is Boston any better than NYC? NYC is better than DC but not ideal. I'm thinking SF now overall,even though it'd cost me an arm and a leg.

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Craig McDermott:
LOL... Let's run down the list (in no particular order):

1) NYC - Humid and stinks like garbage during the summer (I live here, it's a love / hate relationship), but has great nightlife and things to do, plus flights from here to anywhere you'd want to go are available

It blows my mind how dirty NYC is. The bulk of the world's major businesses have dealings in NYC, but no one has money to mop up the stink. It sometimes seems like they're not even trying.

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UFOinsider:
Craig McDermott:
LOL... Let's run down the list (in no particular order):

1) NYC - Humid and stinks like garbage during the summer (I live here, it's a love / hate relationship), but has great nightlife and things to do, plus flights from here to anywhere you'd want to go are available

It blows my mind how dirty NYC is. The bulk of the world's major businesses have dealings in NYC, but no one has money to mop up the stink. It sometimes seems like they're not even trying.

hmmm yeah Beijing smells worse to me

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The United States, in general, is humid territory. Frankly, the weather in D.C., by and large, is incredibly mild by North American standards. It rarely, rarely hits the extremes in cold and heat, there are rarely droughts, no direct hits from hurricanes, few tornadoes, once-in-a-blue-moon earthquakes, relatively rare flooding.

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I can handle an extreme cold, I lived in Russia and northern Europe for a while so I'm not phased by that. It's just humidity itself. I'm fine in Phoenix for example, but it's just an overall boring place.

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I received a message from a recruiter who was looking to fill analyst through Director IB positions in Minneapolis - probably PJC. The reality is that it gets fairly humid in MN, not as bad as the southern states though. The winters can be brutal, however, when you are downtown the skyways connect just about everything.

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Denver and Salt Lake City are your best bets for mid-sized cities with low humidity but neither are large financial services markets, although there are some solid jobs. I live in Denver and love it.

 

I was considering Denver since I'm also interested in CRE so thankfully that's in more places than just major hubs, so maybe Austin included too and some other cities like that.

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BubbaBanker:
I was considering Denver since I'm also interested in CRE so thankfully that's in more places than just major hubs, so maybe Austin included too and some other cities like that.

There's a lot going on in CRE in Denver at the moment. Austin is pretty humid in the summer.

 

Phoenix is insanely boring and the sprawl is a little too much. Not that LA is better, but at least it's more interesting. However, from a weather point of view Phoenix is comfortable, except in the dead of summer. Winters are amazing.

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So I've heard, one of my buddies lives there and only has the best things to say about it, plus it doesn't seem to rain as much as I thought.

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its just super cloudy and gray a lot. gets to some people, but i think the outdoors/mountains make up for it.

honestly, anything west of the continental divide will be good to go. i grew up in seattle, and traveled all around the west. first time i went east of the rockies was for college, stepped off the plane in nyc, and could not believe what I was feeling.....water...in the air....and its hot...what is this? people really live in damp/humid places like this?

im sort of used to it now, but like i said, any major city west of the rockies will fit the bill.

 

however it fucking blows if your apartment doesn't have AC and it's above 80. apparently only like 30-something percent of housing units have AC (lowest % of any US metro)

 

Yeah that's part of the appeal, year-round outdoor things to do all the time. Rents in DC are approaching SF, but it's still something I'd have to get used to.

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dont think anywhere compares to Hong Kong when it comes to humidity the locals seem to be climatized to it, but it's aways amusing seeing another white guy on the street looking like he just jumped in a pool with his clothes on

 

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