[Avalon08]

CJ, I am in NJ listening to the freezing wind howling outside my window! I will be leaving this week for a few months in FL and I can't wait!

Seriously, I hate humidity but then I hate to be cold as well. I should've stayed in Southern Calif. which had the most beautiful climate....but who can afford it. But in lieu of Calif., being a snow-bird is the next best thing.

[MrTudo]

Welcome and have a nice trip! Bring some pizza please

[verobeach]

Originally Posted by LushTrees

Things CHANGE in other places!!! Things never change in Florida. Florida is the perpetual coffin/gravesite. Too much sunshine makes a desert. There is no hope of rebirth after death; no variety of color, or even smells! It always smells like a swamp! It's reptilian and primitive.

I agree 100% with what LushTrees writes (above) and I have my house for sale, hoping to move back to the northeast. But LT, when you watch the news and see that they've already had a blizzard up there and it's not even technically winter, do you still want to move back? I'm having second thoughts. Yes, Florida is stagnant, it never changes, I agree. But I'm not sure I'm ready to scrape, shovel and salt again.

[Rhett_Butler]

Originally Posted by verobeach

I agree 100% with what LushTrees writes (above) and I have my house for sale, hoping to move back to the northeast. But LT, when you watch the news and see that they've already had a blizzard up there and it's not even technically winter, do you still want to move back? I'm having second thoughts. Yes, Florida is stagnant, it never changes, I agree. But I'm not sure I'm ready to scrape, shovel and salt again.

I'll tell you guys the same thing I say to those in the Northeast that feel they need to move ALL THE WAY down to Florida from one extreme to the other to escape the other extreme.... Settle somewhere with a more temperate climate then.... Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee. People don't just go there because it's the chic thing to do these days. It's because you get that variety without having to dig your car out of blizzards four times a year and also get a hot summer without the threat of sweltering for 6 straight months.....

I agree that the variety in weather is such a welcome change, but why subject yourself to the other extreme..... Especially moving from Florida it'll be a HUGE shock to your system.... (I'm guessing you all must have family up there, but otherwise reconsider and split the difference.. ).

[Magnulus]

Virginia? It's muggy and hot in the summer and cold in the winter. And to top it off, their road services suck so bad people panic over a little snow. You know, in reality most of the Southeast has the same weather- hot nasty summers and mild winters. If you don't deal with humidity the southeast is the wrong area for you.

It really comes down to... how much do you like shovelling snow and "4-seasons". I could care less about having a fall or winter, since I don't celebrate Christmas or any holidays like that, but the humidity in Florida I have to admit is a bit much. I would do OK in a cool rainy place, I believe. I really like the weather in the UK, almost never got hot or very cold, you just had to deal with the rain.

[macguy]

Originally Posted by verobeach

I agree 100% with what LushTrees writes (above) and I have my house for sale, hoping to move back to the northeast. But LT, when you watch the news and see that they've already had a blizzard up there and it's not even technically winter, do you still want to move back? I'm having second thoughts. Yes, Florida is stagnant, it never changes, I agree. But I'm not sure I'm ready to scrape, shovel and salt again.

I don't know, you all sound like you are chained to your houses or something, do any of you ever vacation? I haven't recently, but we used to travel all the time every time we had a chance. Florida is our home and home base, but I, except for maybe the last year, was never here all the time. When we would get back it always seemed nice to be home with new perspectives.

Trust me, it sounds romantic to live in a cabin on a mountain top but you don't want to do it full time any more then many of the things people fantasy as their ideal place. Life is about variety. Things have changed for us and we do want a different place as our permeant residence but it doesn't need to be perfect. I would not expect it to be, that's not possible.

[Rhett_Butler]

Originally Posted by Magnulus

Virginia? It's muggy and hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

Imagine that??? Hot in summer and cold in winter.... What a concept!!!

Originally Posted by Magnulus

And to top it off, their road services suck so bad people panic over a little snow.

And work closes and you get a snow day or two a year.... Yeah, that really blows....

Originally Posted by Magnulus

You know, in reality most of the Southeast has the same weather- hot nasty summers and mild winters. If you don't deal with humidity the southeast is the wrong area for you.

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Depends, much of the southeast has heatwaves in the summer where the temps go crazy for a few days or a week and then it settles back into the 80s for a week or two and then back up again.....

Much like winter. Get a cold snap (not like the northeast though) where it dips into the 20s and you get some snow, but then the following week you get back up into the 50s..... Weather is variable, but any nasty weather is very temporary no matter which extreme you may love or hate...

That's all I'm saying... No matter what weather you hate there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

[bcfarmlady]

I agree with the OP and VeroBeach... I live just north of Vero in Palm Bay. My home also for sale... and in that context, I agree with VAFury, I'm on my way to Kentucky for some milder weather, variety and a change of lifestyle.

[verobeach]

Originally Posted by macguy

I don't know, you all sound like you are chained to your houses or something, do any of you ever vacation?

What an assumption! Are you the only Floridian to find your way to an airport? We've lived here for less than three years and in that time we've been to Europe, California, Chicago, and at least a dozen trips to Massachusetts. We're leaving tomorrow for 10 days in New England. The only way to live somewhere you don't totally like is to leave often. This isn't rocket science. We've figured this out as soon as we got here.

[1970pelle]

Well I have been here 18 years.Moved from Ohio.I haven't EVER looked back.Only went back up north 3 times.I like it hot and even hotter.Its sounds like other issues in the back ground of the OP.You need some peace.Hope it comes soon.