Where is weather similiar to SoCal? (Grand Junction: foreclosure, move to, beach)

[CosmicWizard]

shanhill wrote: Where is weather similiar to SoCal?

The Mediterreanean!

I have spent the past three years in Grand Junction. The climate is not at all like the climate of Southern California. The summers here are slightly hotter, and the winters are MUCH colder.

[treedonkey]

Tijuana

[80skeys]

General locales that fit your criteria:

Southern Arizona
Central-Southern New Mexico

any farther north of AZ or NM and you see a lot more cold in the winter.
Any farther east or west and you see more humidity.

Originally Posted by shanhill

We need to move out of SoCal soon, but where else is the heat dry, and the winters not too frigid or rainy? Us baby boomers can't shovel much snow and joints start to freeze up below 35 degrees. Can take heat, not humidity- heart condition an issue. We've lived in SoCal all our life and love CO, AZ, ID, NV, WY. Any small towns sound like they'd fit us? We're empty nesters, so schools not an issue. Not ready to retire yet, so jobs in education and upper-level construction are what we're looking.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Vision67

I would add Hawaii, New Zealand and Melbourne Australia.

Hawaii's too humid, the OP said low humidity.

NZ - other than a few "banana belts" and the northern most extremes, a Marine West Coast climate, too much rain.

Already mentioned Oz.

[borborygmi]

Originally Posted by Vision67

I would add Hawaii, New Zealand and Melbourne Australia.

And Mexico City. Quite possibly the most perfect climate in the western hemisphere. But there's the altitude thing again... not to mention swine flu.

[ORexpat]

Originally Posted by borborygmi

And Mexico City. Quite possibly the most perfect climate in the western hemisphere. But there's the altitude thing again... not to mention swine flu.

I lived in Mexico City for many years. I developed respiratory problems, due
to the very toxic elements in the smog. Also, for two years we could only
go out to one or two restaurants we trusted, because typhoid was raging.
However, if you have heart problems, Mexico City has some great cardiologists. I would suggest Cuernavaca instead.

[CosmicWizard]

Lake Chapala (http://yoloshopper.com/nidmex/lake_chapala__vicinity.htm - broken link) near Guadalajara Mexico has a very temperate climate, without the extremes of Colorado. It is a mecca for expatriot americans and canadians.

Climate

Probably the principal attraction to Lake Chapala is its semitropical climate, rated among the best in the world. With an average temperature of 75° Fahrenheit, the sun shines almost every day. Even when the cooling rains come (June to September), it almost always rains during the late-night or pre-dawn hours, with the sunshine returning during the day, leaving the humidity just high enough to keep the brightly colored flowers blooming and turn the surrounding mountains a lush tropical green.

Almost every day in the Lake Chapala valley is mild. Many homes have garden terraces or patios as many people live outdoors much of the year. It would be difficult to find a more ideal climate anywhere in the world. In the winter months, temperatures dip low enough to appreciate a fireplace, though, generally, heating and air-conditioning are not needed.

[80skeys]

It sure sounds like the Original Poster wants to consider the United States only because they made reference to other states.

Given this, why in the world is everyone mentioning far-flung places in other countries?

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by 80skeys

It sure sounds like the Original Poster wants to consider the United States only because they made reference to other states.

Given this, why in the world is everyone mentioning far-flung places in other countries?

It's a round about way of saying, ain't no place with So Cal weather in Co or for that matter anywhere else in the US.

[treedonkey]

Originally Posted by 80skeys

It sure sounds like the Original Poster wants to consider the United States only because they made reference to other states.

Given this, why in the world is everyone mentioning far-flung places in other countries?

The original question was: Where is weather similiar to SoCal? And then the OP went on to clarify that that meant low humidity, warm summers, and very mild winters. Tijuana is not far flung from So CA at all, and fits that description perfectly as does the rest of the Baja coast until you head southeast from Ensenada, at which point it gets a lot hotter and, eventually, tropical. Very many sun-baked SoCA'ans have bought vacation and/or retirement homes down in Baja for that very reason, and because it's a lot cheaper than in So Cal. It has some pretty obvious drawbacks though.