Wanting to Move to TN, but need some help :) (Memphis: renting, how much)

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by CandRach2

I just want to say I think it's pretty brave to move from one state to another. I really want to do that too, but it's just a matter of picking a place. I have been thinking of TN though, and if everyone says it's so great...My family I work for, they take trips to TN to vist family. I should get inside info. But ,how's the humidity in TN? Once I took a trip to Georgia, and the humidity there almost killed me. It was summertime, so maybe it was worse then, but still. But good luck to you LissieAnn, for finding a place you and your fiance like!

It's hard to answer. It really depends on you.

I see your from the VA/DC area. So in your case the humidity might feel about the same as where you live now. I don't think it would be much worse. You see, GA is on the ocean and so being that it is is more south than VA it was very hot and humid to you. Since Knoxville is on the other side of the mountains we are not that bad. Gosh, it might even seem more pleasant to you. VA can be brutally humid.

[LissieAnn]

Originally Posted by CandRach2

I just want to say I think it's pretty brave to move from one state to another. I really want to do that too, but it's just a matter of picking a place. I have been thinking of TN though, and if everyone says it's so great...My family I work for, they take trips to TN to vist family. I should get inside info. But ,how's the humidity in TN? Once I took a trip to Georgia, and the humidity there almost killed me. It was summertime, so maybe it was worse then, but still. But good luck to you LissieAnn, for finding a place you and your fiance like!

LOL Thanks! Yeah, I figure I really can't go wrong. At this point I think the only state that would make me want to stay in California is Nevada, lol.

[CandRach2]

Thanks for answering my question about humidity! It may seem like a silly question, but that's one thing about the weather that really bugs me, so it's nice to know it's not too bad. Thanks!

[creeksitter]

I dunno, it is pretty humid here. So maybe it's 85% instead of 95%. I think someone from California could find it opressive in the summer. But since we have seasons the humidity doesn't last forever.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

I dunno, it is pretty humid here. So maybe it's 85% instead of 95%. I think someone from California could find it opressive in the summer. But since we have seasons the humidity doesn't last forever.

I would think that someone from California is definitely going to notice the humidity. So far, my unscientific observations from people on the forum is that some find it oppressive and some it doesn't bother as much. Like you said, maybe they anticipate the fall and get over it.

But I was really responding to the person from the coast of VA. I don't think there is going to be much of a difference. You really have to compare dewpoints, though, so I just don't know.

I've been to the coast of VA three times in summer and every time I thought the humidity was horrible. I also thought Savannah, Georgia was really, really awful.

But that was well before I had lived in swFlorida which is the subtropics. You don't really know about unbearable humidity until you've met that place, especially Naples, Bonita Springs, Fort Myers and Cape Coral.

Either way, my body has adjusted to all of those areas, but I've lived in the eastern half of the country my entire life.

[kygman]

Hey, emmy, I haven't read all the way through this thread, but you said you had lived in Clarksville and it was 45 minutes from Nashville. How about Springfield? It's closer to Nashville, about 15,000 population.

[46Barb]

I'm originally from Long Island and I don't feel the humidity down here in middle TN that much. I think it's a lot less.

I do agree that it depends on what area of the country you're coming from. My friends from California think it's very humid here.

[SKYSEA]

Funny thing about perceived humidity. I currently live in the Los Angeles area of California and will be moving to Cookeville next year. Even in So Cal, you have some high humidity days. During this summer I was comparing temperature and humidity between Los Angeles and Cookeville on the Weather Channel. Guess what, sometimes the humidity was higher in Los Angeles. (All those swimming pools and sprinklers) Also, LA has temps in the 100's and Cookeville the highs are generally around the low to mid 90's.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by SKYSEA

Funny thing about perceived humidity. I currently live in the Los Angeles area of California and will be moving to Cookeville next year. Even in So Cal, you have some high humidity days. During this summer I was comparing temperature and humidity between Los Angeles and Cookeville on the Weather Channel. Guess what, sometimes the humidity was higher in Los Angeles. (All those swimming pools and sprinklers) Also, LA has temps in the 100's and Cookeville the highs are generally around the low to mid 90's.

Always check the dewpoint. That's what makes the difference.

[as3369]

I live in South Florida currently and also occassionally compare the weather reports between here and Cookeville. Sometimes, the heat indexes are comparable in the summer, but Cookeville will get days of relief from the searing heat/humidity, whereas you can plan on 90-100 degree heat pretty much from the middle of May - middle of October.