Can't stand the cold, where should I move?

[Fritzo]

Try moving indoors. If you're outdoors, it tends to get cold in a lot of places. Indoors it's pretty much warm all year long.

 

[marincounty]

Hawaii has awesome weather but it's hard to make a living there. California is probably the best of the rest. Northern California gets quite a bit of rain in winter, but we also have trees.
Southern California has better weather but too many people and cars. I agree with other posters that San Diego has incredible weather, probably the best on the mainland. Great place to retire.

 

[alphatarget1]

Texas

 

[iversonyin]

Zimbabwe

 

[evident]

i'm going to try and move to hawaii as soon as an opportunity jumps at me. east coast weather and attitude is wearing me down. could take a while though.

 

[bobdole369]

You have to realize that its HUMID here, you might want to visit to see if you can stand the ridiculousness of 90F+ weather with 80%+ humidity.

Also - it doesn't cool off at night. At 3am its still balls friggin hot.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Depends on what you consider perfect. Ireland gets into the 40s in the winter, and the 70s in the summer. It also rains a lot, and has frequent cloud cover. That sounds like heaven to me, and I couldn't think of a better place to live.

WORD! Not to mention all the redheads you can eat. It's like a perfect little fairy tale world. *weeps*

 

[kalrith]

Could go to Hawaii... they're pretty much 80F year round.

this

 

[Woosta]

Fuck
cold
weather

 

[surfsatwerk]

Fuck
cold
weather

It's fine, learn to dress yourself with warm clothes.

 

[nerp]

St. Croix. 85 degrees always.

 

[sdifox]

Haiti

 

[ViviTheMage]

near the equator.

 

[Riverhound777]

I chose to move to the central coast of CA and love it. It can get a bit chilly some mornings (mid to upper 30s) and a few days during the summer in the 90s, but most of the time its 60-70s.

 

[TheKub]

Lived on Oahu for a year and had excellent weather, except for the whole 42 consecutive days of rain! But that was pretty unheard of so I dont hold anything against it.

I recently moved to Clearwater, alot of locals had been complaining about the unseasonably hot weather when we moved I never was all that uncomfortable. Then of course we just had a unseasonably long and cold spell a few weeks ago. Guess the bad\unusual weather just follows us around!

 

[K1052]

Personally, I'm giving San Diego some serious consideration. The only thing holding me here is my work and that's probably coming to an end soon so I want to GTFO to somewhere less dick shriveling cold.

 

[bignateyk]

There is no perfect place, everywhere you go it will either be too cold in winter or too hot in summer, you just have to decide which is the lesser of two evils.

I think San Diego would qualify as the perfect place. Not much rain, between 65 and 75 pretty much year round. Doesn't get much better than that.

Disclaimer: I say this as I sit at home in central PA where it is currently 9 degrees with a windchill of about -10.

 

[DT4K]

The thing with the places that are warm in the winter is that they're miserably hot in the summer and their summers are half the year long at least.

I was born and raised in south east FL where it was hot, hotter and holy shit I'm dying hot year round.

Now I live in the Atlanta, GA area and it gets pretty damn hot in the summer, but it cools off at night, unlike summers in FL, and I get 4 real seasons but with little to no snow.

If you're to hot, you can only take off so many layers of clothes to compensate for it. If it's cold out you can always put on more layers to compensate for it.

Sounds like your experience is limited to the East Coast.
Southern California almost never gets cold. It can occasionally get hot in the summer, but it's NOTHING like the suffocating humidity on the East Coast and in the South.

I lived in San Diego for awhile and if you don't mind the lack of 4 really distinct seasons, it's the absolute best climate you can find in the U.S.

I live in North Carolina now. I HATE the summers. Winters are a mix. It can get cold, but you also usually get some warmer days. Last year, I remember it being in the 30's one weekend in December and the next weekend, we were playing golf and it was 75 F.

 

[DT4K]

I think San Diego would qualify as the perfect place. Not much rain, between 65 and 75 pretty much year round. Doesn't get much better than that.

Disclaimer: I say this as I sit at home in central PA where it is currently 9 degrees with a windchill of about -10.

Summers often get into the 80s, but that's extremely pleasant with low humidity. But the farther you move inland, the hotter the summers get. It can be 75 on the beach, but 95 when you go 10 miles inland.

 

[cutenfit]

Portland, OR - Mild winters and nice weather in summer. Only a few really hot days.

 

[StrangeRanger]

If you're to hot, you can only take off so many layers of clothes to compensate for it. If it's cold out you can always put on more layers to compensate for it.

You've obviously never lived any where real cold. I'm born, raised and live in VT and it gets mother fuckin' cold. So cold now matter how many layers you add yer still freezing your nuts off.

But I also did an outbound type program in Alaska and that made me wish for VT winter. It literally would get so cold that you couldn't start a fire in a stove because the air pressure was so low you couldn't get enough of a draft going.

In the heat you've got a/c, fans and cement ponds. I'll take that any day.

 

[hanoverphist]

Brute heat might also be a bit worse than brute cold - I'm thinking Arizona is not an ideal place.

northern az is very nice. a lot slower too, if youre sick of the rat race. i love doing service calls up in cottonwood and north of there, the "rush hour" lasts about 30 min and its still only 2 lanes of traffic wide lol. and the temps rarely get over 95 or so in summer.

 

[sdifox]

You've obviously never lived any where real cold. I'm born, raised and live in VT and it gets mother fuckin' cold. So cold now matter how many layers you add yer still freezing your nuts off.

But I also did an outbound type program in Alaska and that made me wish for VT winter. It literally would get so cold that you couldn't start a fire in a stove because the air pressure was so low you couldn't get enough of a draft going.

In the heat you've got a/c, fans and cement ponds. I'll take that any day.

I lived in Tainan (a southern city in Taiwan), Buenos Aires and Toronto. Buenos Aires was the best. I can't stand the heat in Tainan since it is also humid. Toronto doesn't bother me much.

 

[FoBoT]

West coast
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East coast
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[kt]

You've obviously never lived any where real cold. I'm born, raised and live in VT and it gets mother fuckin' cold. So cold now matter how many layers you add yer still freezing your nuts off.

But I also did an outbound type program in Alaska and that made me wish for VT winter. It literally would get so cold that you couldn't start a fire in a stove because the air pressure was so low you couldn't get enough of a draft going.

In the heat you've got a/c, fans and cement ponds. I'll take that any day.

If you can turn on the A/C, why can't you turn on the heater? I rather be in the cold than in the heat.