Big improvements (for me—YMMV): 1. Boston has two of the world’s best few universities very close together. (It’s hard to live close to Stanford without studying there, and it’s a huge trek from Stanford to Berkeley). 2. There’s an obvious Schelling point in Boston for where to live (Camberville), while interesting people/companies/organizations in the Bay are in SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and South Bay/Peninsula. 3. Boston is closer to NYC (and the other big East Coast cities) and Europe.
I’d guess Camberville is significantly cheaper in terms of overall COL than SF but it has similar big city amenities (concerts, opera, museums, huge diversity of events) that Berkeley lacks.
Big improvements (for me—YMMV):
1. Boston has two of the world’s best few universities very close together. (It’s hard to live close to Stanford without studying there, and it’s a huge trek from Stanford to Berkeley).
2. There’s an obvious Schelling point in Boston for where to live (Camberville), while interesting people/companies/organizations in the Bay are in SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and South Bay/Peninsula.
3. Boston is closer to NYC (and the other big East Coast cities) and Europe.
I’d guess Camberville is significantly cheaper in terms of overall COL than SF but it has similar big city amenities (concerts, opera, museums, huge diversity of events) that Berkeley lacks.