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We are selling our house now that the kids have all moved out and we're looking forward to moving. We're just not sure where. I want to stay in the south, someplace nice and warm because we've got tortoises that don't hibernate. If we live in a colder climate they've got to spend any day that don't get above 50 degrees in the house. I don't like them living in the house. Love them, but I'm sick of them rearranging the furniture and destroying walls out of boredom. And we won't get rid of them, so warm temps are a must.
Hubby however doesn't want to leave the mountains. We've got some wonderful views from the front porch and the back deck. He really enjoys that. But I haven't found any areas in the south - hopefully southeast - that are warm and in a mountainous area. Does anyone know of any?
Not looking at south Florida warm. We already played that game a few years. Hoping north Florida, AL, GA, MS, etc.
Don't know if it would be warm enough still, but the topography around Lake Martin in AL might suit the hubby. Took a vacation or two in Jackson's Gap and the roads around there would occasionally find our car nearly vertical, with nothing but a view of tree tops and the sky! Not TN mountains, but pretty country, nice views.
I've lived in Mobile, Houston, and the Florida panhandle, and even those places get some chilly weather most winters. I don't know that it's possible to get warmer than that and still be in the south without going into south Florida or maybe south Texas along the gulf.
The Edwards Plateau, an hour or so west of Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Very scenic, attractive wooded hill country, daytime temperatures get over 50 almost every day of the year. One of America's best-kept secrets.
Kerrville is over 2,000 feet, and this year there were 4 days in January and 4 in February that did not reach the 50s. And this was one of the coldest winters on record. Average January high is 59.
Kerrville (22,000) and Fredericksburg (12,000) would both be very nice towns to live in. Fredericksburg old and historic, Kerrville growing (but not booming) with retirees. Pretty desolate elsewhere, but a few very small towns.
East TN, West NC and North GA all are mountain areas. Most of the year it is warm, but they do get a winter, in fact there are ski resorts in that area. So I guess it depends on your definition of warm, they are warmer than CO or VT but its still prone to some winter conditions. The only place in the USA with WARM mountain conditons is Hawaii.
East TN, West NC and North GA all are mountain areas. Most of the year it is warm, but they do get a winter, in fact there are ski resorts in that area. So I guess it depends on your definition of warm, they are warmer than CO or VT but its still prone to some winter conditions. The only place in the USA with WARM mountain conditons is Hawaii.
We shouldn't forget that even in Hawaii they get snow on top of the mountains.
Are you saying that the tortoises have to stay indoors at any time the temperature falls below 50 degrees?
The other question is whether hills, rather than mountains, would do. The reality is that you're not going to find any mountainous areas in the continental U.S. where it's not fairly brisk, if not donwright cold, during the winter. If you need a place where the temp. never drops below 50, you're not going to find that in the continental U.S., but you might be able to reduce the number of days the critters would have to stay indoors in an area like the Texas hill country. You'd be talking hills there, however, not mountains.
Most any mountain area of any note- as in they're not just hills- is going to be cooler. I'm from East TN which has the smoky mountains. For comparison, they're only about 1/3rd the height of the Rocky Mountains. They get snow and tend to be much colder than the valleys and other surrounding areas.
They do have some periods of brisk cold during the winter, but those are limited.
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