Checking out Rhode Island and a possible RELOCATION?

[16 Acres]

Originally Posted by ormari

Summers are humid to my senses, but friends from New Jersey and Virginia kind of laugh when they come up and I complain about our humidity.

Your friends must be from Eastern Virginia.

The Western part of the state is a whole lot different.

[timberline742]

If you think 4k is a lot in property taxes on a 200+ k place, I don't think you'll find much relief here.

[Hollytree]

Here's a humidity map of the US

Relative Humidity Map for the United States

[independent man]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

Here's a humidity map of the US

Relative Humidity Map for the United States

Interesting. Current conditions. It's pouring rain in most of RI now. An average humidity map would be helpful also.

[9162]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Philly is the Midwest?

Ah, no, this an overall comparison. The OP wanted more info on winters here, not necessarily how they compare to Philly

[ormari]

Originally Posted by Hollytree

Here's a humidity map of the US

Relative Humidity Map for the United States

Relative humidity isn't particularly useful if one wants to know how comfortable the summer months are, because on its own it says nothing about temperature.

Better is a map of average summer dewpoints, from which one can infer something about the combination of humidity and temperature. Here's one from the summer of 2016 produced by NOAA.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring...-point-abs.gif

Of course that's just one summer, but it gives a pretty good idea...

[Hollytree]

So much weather information can easily be obtained on the internet including average temperatures in every state every month, etc.

Should be part of everyone's preliminary due diligence.

[steveandbarb1]

Sounds like a move to Colorado would be more like it

[ocngypz]

I looked at a condo last weekend. 1600 sqft, partially finished basement. List price $375K. Taxes over $7000.... in West Warwick.. which is not known for it's school district or much of anything else.

You'd be hard pressed in any town to find taxes less than $4000 per year in this state for something you'd enjoy living in.

RI is humid - except in the winter when it is cold and dry.

Our summers are not the summers of my youth down in South County at the beach. You need a/c down at South County beaches now. They are hotter and awfully humid.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by redplum33

It does get sticky in the summer and it does get cold in the winter, but there are not many days throughout the year where it's unbearable. The idea that you'd have to stay inside with AC all summer, or you'd have to hibernate all winter, is not only inaccurate but also ridiculous. Sure, there will be a handful of days where you'd want to stay home with your AC or heat cranked up. Overall, though, RI is a beautiful place in the summer and the winters are not bad at all. There's definitely some exaggeration in this thread.

Today is definitely one of those days. Tomorrow also.

Feel-like temps between 105 and 108 right now.