It's fascinating; the stranglehold that ("the free state of") Florida has on many people's mindsets in certain demographic groups. I don't deny that there are some fun things to do -- ocean-related activities, enjoying fresh fish/seafood, and golf -- but to spend more than a few days there on vacation?
Given the usually unpleasant weather in the Midwest and Northeast, plus the general tendency of older people to be more sensitive to cold, I totally get why lots of these people would live in Florida at least 7 months a year like Liz' mother did. But I also understand why she lived somewhere else (in the Smoky Mountains, NC) for the other 5 months. That said, I can't say Florida in summer 2020 was any more unpleasant than a hellish July week in 2013 that I spent with Liz in NYC. And our location in Florida was 10 minutes from the Gulf for some relief. Having lived in both, I'll take Florida's weather over New Jersey's any day.
Take it from someone who lives in a hot and humid location. You don’t want to live in that kind of climate. It sucks.
We get approximately three weeks of brutally hot and humid weather here each summer and I couldn't imagine months of that.
I wouldn't call myself a weather parochial (my chronological experiences at the bottom) and know that preferences are in the eye of the beholder. While Tony's comment may seem exaggerated, he's complained numerous times about his university years in Princeton and uses southern CA as his baseline, so I'll take it at face value. The subjectively nonstop sun that I experienced in Colorado and New Mexico exhausted me after a while. I prefer a more varied climate and enjoy it here, other than the three weeks of hot and humid mentioned above.
Closest Euro region analogies to L.A. are Lisbon in the summer and Casablanca in the winter, and it's not coincidental that both of those are on the Atlantic not the Mediterranean. The actual Mediterranean is slightly different from the west coast/cold current climates (Chile/South Africa/California/south and southwest Australia). The Mediterranean warms up much more than those oceans in summer (so similar air temperatures but more humidity) but the higher latitude also means colder winters.
I didn’t have you as 55 plus.We get approximately three weeks of brutally hot and humid weather here each summer and I couldn't imagine months of that.
I wouldn't call myself a weather parochial (my chronological experiences at the bottom) and know that preferences are in the eye of the beholder. While Tony's comment may seem exaggerated, he's complained numerous times about his university years in Princeton and uses southern CA as his baseline, so I'll take it at face value. The subjectively nonstop sun that I experienced in Colorado and New Mexico exhausted me after a while. I prefer a more varied climate and enjoy it here, other than the three weeks of hot and humid mentioned above.
It may be time to break out this discussion from Jason's unlikely three-week western ski trip.
- 18 years in Central New York
- 5 years in Denver/Boulder
- 6 months in Nice (similar to Los Angeles, I'm told?)
- 1 year in Berlin (nonstop gray and cold in the winter, very pleasant in the summer)
- 4 years in Albuquerque/Taos
- 3 years in Chicagoland
- 6 months in Montreal
- 4 years in Brooklyn
- 21 years in northern New Jersey
Humidity kicks in about early December and lasts until early April. The worst of it being all of January and February. It’s a good time to travel to the northern hemisphere.
Come on. Make America Great Again.
James, Patrick and former admin are all within about a year of age.
Florida is still one of the more closely balanced states. Remember 2000? It has drifted redder since then, but the overall population mix is not as extreme as the current state government. That might provoke a backlash at some point.
This!!!
If you ever come to Queensland come in the winter. That’s our calm weather and therefore offshore fishing season. You can have a few days fishing arguably the best reef fishing grounds on the planet.
I wasn't serious, I was trying to be funny
Yeah sorry. I get that now.
I wouldn't want to live there ~mid-May till ~End of Sept when the humidity is horrid, but I've been going sometimes regularly, sometimes irregularly for much of my life (Gulf coast side).