Where are the best places for snow loves to move to? (St. Paul: live in, garden)

[fromupthere]

You shouldn't have a problem finding jobs in Rochester. With Mayo here there are definitely nursing jobs available. The pay is good too as are the benefits. Duluth has 2 hospitals and is good for health care too. Having lived in both cities, I'd still pick Rochester for the work but Duluth is wonderful for the outdoors. There are plenty of outdoor things to do here too but Duluth has more winter activities.

Minnesota has excellent schools if you moved here before everyone went back to school.

Good luck in making your decision.

[TheTransientTranny]

Right now my sister-in-law has said that she's going to stay in Florida for 2 years until she gets her RN. So that would be TWO of the four of us that would be able to get good paying jobs right away if we moved up there. I have told my wife that I might as well go back to school here in Kentucky if my sister-in-law is going to stay in school down there in Florida. It might just be better that way, because if we moved up that way now only one of us can make good money right away.

If we wait, then three of us can make good money right away, with my brother being able to make quick cash in times of emergencies. Plus, he's really.....I mean REALLY...... a jolly good guy to hang around with, he is proof to me that money isn't the only thing in life to happiness. I'm more of a loner, which probably means I need to be working in business administration/accounting rather than nursing (unless it was in more of a private care setting).

This has been a lot of fun reading the responses that you have brought to this thread, fromupthere. May I ask whether you have lived there all your life? It seems like you really enjoy it up there, and it also seems that most people really start to love a state (talking geography here, not mentality) that they didn't start their life in. If Kentucky got lots of snow every year and the summers weren't so dang on hot and humid, I'd stay here, but that's not the way life is!

Anyone else out there that can chime in?

[fromupthere]

Well you'd definitely find RN jobs here in Rochester without a problem.

I have actually lived in Minnesota all but 3 months - those 3 being spent in Superior, Wisconsin, across the bay from Duluth, Minnesota. I have traveled a lot growing up though. My dad wouldn't fly so we always drove. I've been down to Texas probably nearly a dozen times as well as Missouri. I've been to I think 25 or 26 states. I just find that I'd rather put up with the cold and snow than heat or some of the other miserable weather/forces of nature in other states. We did drive through part of Kentucky on our way to Florida but that was almost 20 years ago so I'm sorry to say I don't remember much of it. I do think I thought it was pretty - I think I liked most of the states we drove through as far as visiting.

[Clifford63]

Originally Posted by TheTransientTranny

Right now my sister-in-law has said that she's going to stay in Florida for 2 years until she gets her RN. So that would be TWO of the four of us that would be able to get good paying jobs right away if we moved up there. I have told my wife that I might as well go back to school here in Kentucky if my sister-in-law is going to stay in school down there in Florida. It might just be better that way, because if we moved up that way now only one of us can make good money right away.

If we wait, then three of us can make good money right away, with my brother being able to make quick cash in times of emergencies. Plus, he's really.....I mean REALLY...... a jolly good guy to hang around with, he is proof to me that money isn't the only thing in life to happiness. I'm more of a loner, which probably means I need to be working in business administration/accounting rather than nursing (unless it was in more of a private care setting).

This has been a lot of fun reading the responses that you have brought to this thread, fromupthere. May I ask whether you have lived there all your life? It seems like you really enjoy it up there, and it also seems that most people really start to love a state (talking geography here, not mentality) that they didn't start their life in. If Kentucky got lots of snow every year and the summers weren't so dang on hot and humid, I'd stay here, but that's not the way life is!

Anyone else out there that can chime in?

You mentioned farming. Minnesota is split into 3 general regions with farming being best in the prairie areas.

[TheTransientTranny]

What are the yearly snowfall totals like in the following areas?:

Rochester, MN
Duluth, MN
UP, MI
Charlevoix, MI (or is that the Upper Peninsula?)

[fromupthere]

I'll try to find stats for you, but Rochester is definitely less than Duluth. Winter of 2006-2007, we got a major storm that dumped over a foot snow on top of what we had. I have a picture somewhere of the kids by the mailbox and the snow from the plow pushed the snow to the bottom of the mailbox. Within a week, there was just a small patch of snow left under the mailbox. It definitely doesn't last as long down here. Last year I don't think we got any storms of significance here.

As it's been stated, we don't get the snowfalls we used to. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, we'd get snowed in sometimes, school got canceled a lot more often for snow, etc. It's definitely not like that anymore. I miss those days.

ETA: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/.../snowfall.html

[kuan]

Ironwood, up in the UP, gets 300 inches per year. The average upper midwest town gets 70-100 inches unless the gitchi gami is involved.

[fromupthere]

According to the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce website, they get on average 156 inches of snow annually.

[kuan]

156 inches is probably closer to the truth. The advertising folk claim 300 inches. That might, just might, be an exaggeration.

[DaninEGF]

Here is a link to MN snowfall info and a state map showing 1971-2000 snowfall averages. This info is from the Minnesota Climatology Working Group (i.e. state of Minnesota climate office).

Analysis of Snow Climatology


Here is the main link to the Minnesota climate page.... it will answer most any question there is regarding Minnesota weather....

http://climate.umn.edu/



Dan
NWS Grand Forks ND