I lived in SF for a year and will never move back. Seattle is just
a suburb of SF. Portland is paradise in comparison to both, but only
if you really really love rain before you get there. I'd trade ten
perfectly sunny Laguna Beach days for an afternoon sun-break in Portland,
which makes them about even on the niceness scale.
....Roy [warning, this message contains only my opinions and I really don't
give a rat's ass whether it matches anyone else's, so there.]