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There are other places to live besides SF and Austin. I'd like to find out where they are.
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There are other places to live besides SF and Austin. I'd like to find out where they are.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jqhoogland/where-to-live
• Owner: jqhoogland
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-02-20T11:26:31.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
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• Last Pushed: 2021-03-23T11:02:00.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
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# Where to live?

There are other places to live besides SF and Austin. I'd like to find out where they are.

Inspired by XKCD's:

![temperature preferences](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/temperature_preferences_2x.png)

I want similar plots for other interesting metrics:

- Climate resilience,

- Size of the city,

- Affordability,

- Access to nature,

- etc.

And a lookup tool. And maybe a suggestion tool (once you've weighted all the metrics accordingly).

## The Data

#### Temperature

Source 1: [City monthly average temperatures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_average_temperature)

Source 2: [All the data](https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt)

First, the maximum and minimum monthly average temperatures per city. XKCD's used humidex, but this will come close enough.

Note: this doesn't factor in the differences between daily high and low (it averages across the entire day). So some desert places will appear more temperate than they are.

Note: I didn't check each of the references (I didn't check any).

#### [Population](https://population.un.org/wup/Download/)

> United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.

See also: https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities

#### TODOs

- Environmental

  - [Humidex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidex)

  - [Heat index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index) & Wind chill

  - Average of maximum daily temperature vs. average of minimum daily temperature.

  - Precipitation

  - Humidity

  - [Sunshine duration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_duration) & daylight duration

  - Insolation (Solar irradiance) - for those of us who burn easily.

  - Air Quality index

  - Type of climate / biome

  - Estimated future values of all of these.

- Demographic

  - Safety / crime

  - Education quality

  - Population density

  - Population size

  - Home price, cost of living

  - Median income

  - Percentage of foreign origin

  - Health & lifespan

  - Median age

  - [City "type"](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/there-are-only-four-types-cities)

  - Distinguish city proper and metropolitan area.