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 NYC is fun. But I want to find a place where...
1. Nice weather 9-10 months/year
2. No/few cars, walkable city
3. Clean streets and public areas
4. Lots of motivated ppl my age building cool stuff.

Any suggestions are welcome 🙏 
 Don't live in a *<"(>;- city, dude. GTFO. Geez. No sane person would want to live in a large city these days and in the near future.  
 ^ this. 
 sounds like madeira 
 I'll definetly be visiting Madeira again soon 
 Cascais (30min from Lisbon) 
 I'll have to check it out 🙏 
 Where is satlantis when you need it 
 People love to beat on San Francisco because of crime and homelessness, but outside of a few bad neighborhoods, it meets all of your criteria. We lived there for 10 years and loved it. 
 I've been wanting to spend sometime there for awhile. 
 I also lived in SF for over 10 years. Live in Austin now and IMO it’s way better in Austin. Summers are friggen hot here though. 
 Lived in Austin & SF. SF was epic 06-11, Austin is fun but is as expensive as LA to go out and eat and drink and with weather that bad and property tax that high I moved back to Cali 🤷‍♂️✌️ 
 Yep SF was awesome during that era. Don’t need to go out to eat and drink. Expensive and too much seed oils. Grill steaks and drink water at home ftw. 
 I agree but Austin has good food scene and seed oil free options. I just don’t like a state where weed is still illegal and I need an ID to jerk off on pornhub. Texans talk about freedom but besides gun laws they are a bit backwards in my opinion in many ways 
 I recently heard a good report about Tacoma Washington. But know NOTHING about it myself. Just that it was a gushing report listing the things that you said. 
 agreed  
 Bangkok  
 Come to Virginia. Maybe work for Microstrategy 🤣 
 Malaga Spain 
 I think you and I describe "nice weather" very differently. :) 
 Seems like NYC ticks like 80% of those boxes though? Just estimating as an occasional summertime visitor 🙂 
 I would say it only hits one (number 4)
Other than May-Sept the weather sucks, while it is walkable, there are cars everywhere, pretty much everything is filthy especially any public areas, but yes, lots of young people working hard. 
 Just like fast, easy, cheap… pick 2. May need to pick 3 of the 4. At the same time, it’s on us to help build the community we want to see. One #bitcoin at a time. 
 Funchal 
 Funchal 🌞🥩🏄🏼‍♂️⚡️ 
 Buenos Aires. Clean streets might be a bit too much but checks the other boxes  
 Madrid but the people part could be hard