Best places to live for heat-sensitive friend?

[mshultz]

Originally Posted by 4everMissouri

$200K max.

This is going to be difficult, if not impossible, in today's market. City-Data shows the 2019 median house price in Wooster as about $165,000. Today's newspaper headline shows it is now $250,000. Northeast Ohio is fairly cool as summers go in the US. Going further north gets you little in the way of cooler summers, but much in the way of biting insects and brutal snowy winters. The parts of the US with milder weather (southern Appalachian, West coast) have high costs of living.

[atler8]

Originally Posted by ipaper

Montana, North or South Dakota, or Wyoming.

None of those would work well from what I know of their weather, their worsening air quality problems in the summer due to fires in them, near them or even 100's of miles away as well as water problems in terms of it's availability and more importantly it's future availability.

The summer heat will be a factor in all of those 4 states unless one lives quite high in elevation.
The Dakotas are in particular known for absolutely searing heat at times in the summer and that situation does not end at their western borders they share with both Wyoming and Montana.

As an example of what South Dakota faces in terms of fires within it, see the link below. Take your pick from among the responses found there.
I recall how over this last fall and winter there were fires burning in that state which historically speaking should normally not be the case at all in winter! But, the times are a-changing in terms of weather and especially so in the West and near West.

Simply put, life as it has been known throughout the West in recent decades is not going to be an easy thing to replicate going forward.

My suggestion is to look into the U.P. of Michigan or in upper New England.

https://www.google.com/search?client...ota+grass+fire

[Thealpinist]

Originally Posted by mshultz

This is going to be difficult, if not impossible, in today's market. City-Data shows the 2019 median house price in Wooster as about $165,000. Today's newspaper headline shows it is now $250,000. Northeast Ohio is fairly cool as summers go in the US. Going further north gets you little in the way of cooler summers, but much in the way of biting insects and brutal snowy winters. The parts of the US with milder weather (southern Appalachian, West coast) have high costs of living.

I would not describe anything in Ohio or Southern Appalachia as having mild summers. Not be a long shot.