if you suffer from S.A.D do not move here! (Boston: appointed, apartment)

[chesneyfan1]

It's sooo depressing! 8 months of the year have crappy weather, only to be disappointed when summer comes and it's hot and humid. there are hardly ANY days that are dry and just NICE!!! (60-80 and no humidity). I have lived here my whole life and I despise it. It's been overcast for the ENTIRE month of May!! I might as well ive in Seattle!

[miu]

So go move to Arizona then... *shrug*

[seeriously]

We just moved here from Florida and we're loving the gray Cape mornings. Usually by afternoon we have some sun peeking through. It's not as bad as you say and let's face it, at least we're not having devastating tornadoes or floods.

[wxjay]

People like this are something else. Move somewhere else where you think the weather is "better" then instead of posting these threads on a forum.

I was raised in RI, went to college in VT, CO, and GA. Out of all the places I have lived, I would say CO had the best weather with RI/MA second. GA was annoyingly hot and humid from May - September with minimal "nice" weather. NE VT had (has?) terrible late falls, winters, and springs (it is climatologically cloudier than Seattle and Portland). I never spent a summer up there, but folks who live up there say it ranges from cold to days of high humidity.

[msnewsradio]

I have SAD and have lived here for more than 8 years. It was admittedly tough going the first couple years during the winter/spring months, but once I switched over to natural light bulbs for my apartment and made sure to duck outside as much as possible during my workweek, it has become almost a non-issue. Yes, Boston has more than their share of gray days...but so does Seattle, Portland, and almost any other New England town. Still wouldn't trade living here.

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by chesneyfan1

I have lived here my whole life and I despise it.

This is the most telling bit of information in this post. The grass is always greener. You want sun? Fine... try living in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, DC, MD, etc. Then tell me about how bad our humidity is. I used to live in Washington DC. Sure, their Springs are nicer (I prefer our Falls) and longer, but Summer (May-September) is brutally hot and uncomfortable. It gets worse as you head further South.

Arizona is sunnier, but the heat of the summer (regularly 100+) is unbearable. That "dry heat" talk is more or less BS (sure it would be worse with high humidity, but 100+ is no cake walk either way). San Diego's year-round 70-75 (with a few 85+) is nice until you realize just how brown it is and there's absolutely no change.

San Francisco sounds delightful since it never gets frigid, but it rarely heats up. It's not much fun wearing a jacked by 3pm in July, August and September. It's foggy every day too. Weeks go by with nothing but a spitting mist. The Pac NW is pretty cloudy too.

Move instead of whining about it. You'll see that it nowhere is perfect.

[Cliff Clavin]

I agree. Today is truly unbearable.

[Cantabridgienne]

So....why not move somewhere else?

[MassVt]

Sometimes the most comfortable summer days are those that are overcast and cool; very comfortable to walk around in, and with great sleeping conditions at night without resorting to air conditioning...

[INstix]

WOW. I can't imagine taking the time to post about how others shouldn't move to an area, just because I didn't like it. Everyone is different. I live here in southeastern Indiana, and we have had just perhaps 3-5 days here in May where it hasn't rained or been cloudy, chilly, or otherwise kinda icky. Lots of wet weather this time around, and it isn't just confined to your area.

I also have SAD, and my family and I plan to move to the Boston area in about 5 years because of the much more interesting culture, museums, job ops, ocean, shopping, architecture, and also better access to healthcare, walkable towns with pride in how they look...lots of reasons. We know the weather will be cold and rainy part of the time. What's new? We haven't got as much snow, most of the time, in southeastern IN, but we get chewed up with ice, and the temps can be pretty cold. We've done our homework and we know that winter and early spring is going to call for natural lighting bulbs, making the effort to go out and do things that are interesting and bundling up.

I would not say I hate where I am, ever. I've spent my life here, and I love the country, nature, my farming past, etc. It's just that it's time for some new things in my life. Why the bitterness? If you are unhappy, why try to pass on your perception this way? Just move and be happy elsewhere. I wish you that.