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So I love the heat and temperatures above 100*, but all those places are suburbia while I enjoy urban areas. I have never been able to figure out a city that would combine both fairly well. I guess summers in the 90s would be okay, but over 100 is better.
The only ones I can think of are Miami, Houston, and Dallas. Are there more?
What about internationally in a developed nation...not some place like Lagos or Cairo. I'm thinking maybe Tel Aviv, Melbourne, or Perth?
So I love the heat and temperatures above 100*, but all those places are suburbia while I enjoy urban areas. I have never been able to figure out a city that would combine both fairly well. I guess summers in the 90s would be okay, but over 100 is better.
The only ones I can think of are Miami, Houston, and Dallas. Are there more?
What about internationally in a developed nation...not some place like Lagos or Cairo. I'm thinking maybe Tel Aviv, Melbourne, or Perth?
An 'urban' setting with prolonged high temps? Interesting. Pretty broad and vague subject, though. As a VERY general rule, the 'hottest' places on earth (with long periods of 100 F temps) fall into two categories...dry and humid. The 'hot humid' large cities are GENERALLY in old, long-established, overpopulated places not particularly open to immigration..(India, SE Asia, Africa) while the 'hot and dry' large cities (mostly about 30 degrees in latitude) are either in the Middle East, OR in the desert US Southwest/ Northern Mexico. Don't know if any of these would fit your needs.
Far northern Australia comes to mind, but has few large cities (Darwin, maybe?)....while Melbourne isn't particularly a 'hot' place at all, and Perth has a generally 'California-like' Mediterranean climate.
Sacramento is a good suggestion. I forgot about that.
I think I might end up in Tel Aviv someday as it has basically everything I want. It is urban, has warm summers, a beach, and a large Jewish population (I'm Jewish).
Other places I just thought of were Rio, Madrid, and Barcelona. Rio is so poor and unsafe outside of the tourist areas, though. It can also get bad in the tourist areas. Barcelona isn't as warm as Madrid, but has a beach. Madrid is hot and even gets some winter snow (which I love, but no place in the US has snow and boiling summers), but no beach. I speak some Spanish too so that would help me in Spain.
There isn't an urban place in America that experiences Phoenix-like summers outside the immediate Southwest. Miami's summers nothing like Phoenix. Neither are Houston or Dallas. Dallas will probably come the closest. But even their summers do not have temps that are as high as Phoenix and it's not the most urban of cities.
I personally am not bothered by humidity so Houston and Miami could work. I was thinking maybe the areas near DT Dallas like University and Highland Park. Are there places in downtown that are nice to live or is DT Dallas mainly a business park? I have never been there.
So I love the heat and temperatures above 100*, but all those places are suburbia while I enjoy urban areas. I have never been able to figure out a city that would combine both fairly well. I guess summers in the 90s would be okay, but over 100 is better.
The only ones I can think of are Miami, Houston, and Dallas. Are there more?
Atlanta and Tampa, for starters. There are also smaller cities like San Antonio, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, as well as numerous other cities in Florida. I'm thinking New Orleans could get that hot too, but it's not exactly a hotbed for economic activity.
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