Has anyone ever retired and moved North? (Canada, fighting, states)
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... So, is this an unusual winter for all of us, or changing weather patterns that are going to be with us for the forseeable future? Anyone care to guess?
I think that our ever changing weather system will continue to be fluid and changing. No two years will ever be exactly alike. The best that we can do is to monitor and watch the averages.
B.Franklin's Almanac comes to mind.
You know what the recorded high for any given day is, the recorded low, the ten year average, and in some cases 7-year trend cycles.
None of A.Gore's Nuclear Winter's, nor any of his Global Warming patterns.
Instead I think that for the most part weather for each given day will fit within the parameters between the recorded high and recorded low; and likely within +/-10% of the ten-year average.
We moved from SoCal to Ashland, Oregon five years ago when the DH retired. We like it here but get fed up with winter by March (like, now). We don't get much snow and have never shoveled but it can be gray, gloomy and misty for days at a time. I don't want to go out or do anything. It's hard to decide whether snow is better than misty rain, actually.
I miss SoCal and would go back in a minute but it is way too expensive for us retirees. So I spend time online looking at places and figuring out what to do. One of our daughters lives in Tucson and I love that area but don't know about those summers.... Maybe it wouldn't bother me too much but my ex-Brit spouse wouldn't be too keen. He doesn't mind the winters here as much as I do.
One thing I've learned from my research is that different people like different things and there's no one-size-fits-all. Not real deep, but real.
We moved from SoCal to Ashland, Oregon five years ago when the DH retired. We like it here but get fed up with winter by March (like, now). We don't get much snow and have never shoveled but it can be gray, gloomy and misty for days at a time. I don't want to go out or do anything. It's hard to decide whether snow is better than misty rain, actually.
I miss SoCal and would go back in a minute but it is way too expensive for us retirees. So I spend time online looking at places and figuring out what to do. One of our daughters lives in Tucson and I love that area but don't know about those summers.... Maybe it wouldn't bother me too much but my ex-Brit spouse wouldn't be too keen. He doesn't mind the winters here as much as I do.
One thing I've learned from my research is that different people like different things and there's no one-size-fits-all. Not real deep, but real.
I miss SoCal and would go back in a minute but it is way too expensive for us retirees. So I spend time online looking at places and figuring out what to do. One of our daughters lives in Tucson and I love that area but don't know about those summers.... Maybe it wouldn't bother me too much but my ex-Brit spouse wouldn't be too keen. He doesn't mind the winters here as much as I do.
In Arizona - you could try looking at the areas of Prescott or Payson or Show Low. Then you're looking at a 3 to 4 hour drive to Tucson.
All the Rim Country/White Mountain towns/villages have pine trees and 4 seasons - very little snow (melts quickly within 1 to 3 days) and summers that are much much cooler than 'in the valley'.
Housing price-wise and taxes - - Prescott (Yavapai County) is the highest, Payson (Gila County) is in the middle, and Show Low (Navajo County) is the lowest.
All 3 counties are a bargain compared with California or Oregon
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It's hard to decide whether snow is better than misty rain, actually.
Many, many cold winter days in Western New England are sunny and bright. You can actually count on the entire week between Christmas and New Years day being so (I observe this b/c that is my birthday week, and I'm always happy that the skies are blue and clear, even if it's cold).
I imagine it's that way a lot in Minn. and Wisc and Iowa?
Anyway, a little gray drizzle for a few days here and there anyone can get through. I think it's a real bummer if it lasts any length of time, unless you are so busy you haven't got time to notice. It's a tossup--milder gray gloomy drizzly winters, or cold snowy winters with a good deal of sun. Not sure which I prefer.
We moved from SoCal to Ashland, Oregon five years ago when the DH retired. We like it here but get fed up with winter by March (like, now). We don't get much snow and have never shoveled but it can be gray, gloomy and misty for days at a time. I don't want to go out or do anything. It's hard to decide whether snow is better than misty rain, actually.
Being from central California myself, I am familiar with over-cast skies, fog and gray all winter long. Once those clouds move in during November they can not climb up over the Sierra Nevadas, so they sit in the valley all winter long. Ick
Then when we lived in Bremerton Washington, it was even more than just winter. They get overcast and rain all year around.
It makes stuff green, but you so rarely see sunlight that we did not really like it as much.
Thankfully now we are in Maine.
Through the winters, we normally see one day of storm every week, the rest of each week is sunny clear skies. Far more sun than we saw living in California.
I find it interesting here when folks talk about S.A.D. the glare coming up off the snow blanket, to me makes it terribly bright. Not the least bit dark or gloomy. I commonly wear brazing goggles to drive because it is so bright outside in the winter.
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... I miss SoCal and would go back in a minute but it is way too expensive for us retirees. So I spend time online looking at places and figuring out what to do. One of our daughters lives in Tucson and I love that area but don't know about those summers.... Maybe it wouldn't bother me too much but my ex-Brit spouse wouldn't be too keen. He doesn't mind the winters here as much as I do.
One thing I've learned from my research is that different people like different things and there's no one-size-fits-all. Not real deep, but real.
I do here you about the cost-of-living in SoCal. I have siblings there. No way I could afford to live there on my pension.
Thankfully we found a low cost / low tax region to live in.
We are moving from south central PA to coastal Maine 2 hrs from the Canadian border in about 6 months to a year. I already own the property in Maine. All I have to do is retire, and sell my current house, and I'm outta here. Temp differences are about 6 degress less in the day time and 10 degrees at night in fall, winter, spring, and about 20 degrees less in the daytime and 20 degrees at night in the summer. BTW, my current house is in the price range that is selling, and is a steal.
Additionally, since its part of the most famous National Park on the East Coast, friends and family will actually want to visit us in the spring, summer, and fall.
Zarathu
Statistics on temperatures don't really tell you the difference between upper Maine and south central PA. A few snowy and icy winters that last from September to late May, and you may be regretting your move.
The number of hours of sunlight in the far north are also pretty small compared to living in Florida. Even here in southern NH, December days are pitch-black by 4:15 p.m., even on the rare days when there wasn't cloud-cover.
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