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Aamilj said:

I don’t care about Florida.

Governor Ron, is that you? Blink once for yes.

ApolloAndy said:

Lots of facts backed up by readily available scientific data.

Jeff said:

Yeah, endless summer and not shoveling snow is such a drag!

If you like it hot, I prefer to not see a day above 65. Snow is easy, you can have your hot state where everyone is ready to bite each other’s heads off. Probably because they are walking around with swamp ass all the time.

TheMillenniumRider said:

Jeff said:

Yeah, endless summer and not shoveling snow is such a drag!

If you like it hot, I prefer to not see a day above 65. Snow is easy, you can have your hot state where everyone is ready to bite each other’s heads off. Probably because they are walking around with swamp ass all the time.

Why am I suddenly hearing the Heat Miser/Snow Miser songs in my head?

I love the weather here in WV. We have mild winters with little snowfall these days*, and the summers usually don't get any hotter than 90°. The only problem I have where I live is the internet lines don't reach this far out in the woods, and I live in a valley, so I'm always surrounded by trees and rarely see the horizon.

Seeing the horizon all the time was something I really enjoyed about Orlando when I lived there. The heat was hard for me to get acclimated to though. It was unbearable sometimes.

*I recall much more snowfall when I was a kid.

You are just taller now than you were as a kid. Shallow end of pools probably seemed a lot deeper when you were a kid as well. :)

One persons happiness for endless summers is another persons gripe... One of the vendors I talk with, he has lived in San Diego all his life and has mentioned to me how 'depressing' blue skies and beautiful weather 24/7 can be when things never change around you, it becomes repetitive. At first I thought he was joking with me, but he was serious. He much prefers a change of season and/or weather and looks forward to traveling for his business or visiting family out of state and away from sunny San Diego. I can absolutely see that, though.

For me, I don't think I could move somewhere without a change of seasons. I like fall way too much to give it up... I want to have to wear a light coat or hoodie, be able to have a fire on the back deck and not melt. Taking the Camaro out for a scenic drive in the metroparks or on a road trip when fall is at or near peak colors is a glorious thing. Bundling up to take the dog for his long nightly walk when some fresh powder just dropped and it's eerily quiet. The feeling/happiness of those bright, sunny days in the middle of winter in-between all the grey skies/gloom. It's exciting in a weird way.

Not to mention the past few winters here in Cleveland have been super easy. Hell, we tend to have great weather anymore up through December usually. Really just Jan/Feb are only real hardcore winter months, if you can call them that anymore. Oh, and driving in snow is a blast (serious, I really enjoy it).

But yeah, I really like the change of seasons most of all... Orlando was on our radar long ago when prospecting jobs, but I just couldn't do it. Vacation is fine, we go a few times a year, but not living there. It's also way hella-flat. Easy enough to hop on a plane for a long weekend if we need our sunshine state fix.

As a lifelong sufferer of seasonal affective disorder, I can assure you that moving to Florida improved my quality of life exponentially.

It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. Oh and the stagnant air that goes with it. But yeah I get the seasonal disorder. Winter here in western NY is just dreary and depressing and never-ending.

Jeff said:

As a lifelong sufferer of seasonal affective disorder, I can assure you that moving to Florida improved my quality of life exponentially.

Yep. I miss the seasons. I especially miss the colors and crisp air of Fall. I miss weekly trips to Halloweekends (and WoA Fright Fest). Or summers with cool stretches to open windows. I hate Florida summer with a passion.

But losing the winter depression and the slate gray skies makes it worth it without even having to think about it.

Jeff said:

As a lifelong sufferer of seasonal affective disorder, I can assure you that moving to Florida improved my quality of life exponentially.

I can understand that, for sure. I'm somewhat the opposite in a weird way... When it's super hot/humid outside, day after day, I don't even want to go outside or do anything and I can be in a bit of a 'funk'. I feel worse being stuck inside a house when the skies are blue and it's the middle of summer but intolerable heat/humidity making it a chore doing anything outside, versus grey skies but tolerable temp/humidity.

Just got to go where it feels right!

When I lived in Texas I dreaded the summer. It wasn't that the heat was intolerable. I played a bunch of pick up sports in the evening. It was just that sitting in A/C had so much inertia that a large part of my weekends involved me poking my head out of the A/C and going "nope." If I didn't have some reason to leave, I didn't.

The Bay Area is a pretty sweet when it comes to weather. Rarely above 90, never below 40, but with enough variation so you know there are seasons.

Seattle was like that too. It's 74 and sunny every day in the summer, and even in the rainy season, from November to February, being a temperate rain forest, you get drizzle with intermittent sun.

Orlando gets hotter than the coasts because it doesn't benefit as much from water moderating the temperature, but I'm used to it. Afternoon thunderstorms help quite a bit.

Oh yeah. Sunny Seattle. LOL

Why do you think you need irrigation for your lawn? It's because it doesn't rain all summer. Without watering, your lawn will most certainly die.

It's been a wet summer up here in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor. Usually I can stop mowing sometime in mid-July, but the darn stuff keeps growing.

(I did a sabbatical in Seattle. Most people would call what usually passes for "rain" up there a light mist. There's a reason you don't carry an umbrella there--and it's not because it's gauche to do so, it's because you really don't need to if you have a halfway decent rain coat. Also, Pittsburgh has fewer sunny days.)

Yep, that's totally true. I don't recall ever using an umbrella while I lived there.

Many people seem to get so defensive about the place they live. I mean, I love Ohio and honestly don't want to live in another climate, but I also get why some people would hate it. Awesome that our planet has a lot to pick from.

Except for Sandusky. That's just the armpit of the world that no executive should be forced to live in.

Jeff said:

As a lifelong sufferer of seasonal affective disorder, I can assure you that moving to Florida improved my quality of life exponentially.

Same for my move to Cal. Once you don't have a crappy winter, or those steel grey skies from Nov-March, you will never go back. It's the reason SoCal is "laid back". We just don't have that reason to be grumpy like the NorthEast and MidWest winter sufferers.

OhioStater said:

Except for Sandusky. That's just the armpit of the world that no executive should be forced to live in.

"Dodonpa"

Fixed that for you.