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Old 10-28-2011, 10:28 PM
 
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Is there something to this phenomenon of temperate climate people wanting to flood the subtropics/tropics the past few decades? Does it coincide with the widespread affordability of residential air conditioning since the 70s/80s, or something else? Is it those pretty, colorful pictures on travel magazines, the euphoria that people who don't live near the beach in a hot climate that attracts people? Having been brought up in a place that the all-time record low is 60°F, 5 miles (as the crow flies) from the northern coast of PR, explain to me

I'm not looking for personal reasons of why you like that climate, I'm looking for discussion in a broad sense, something that would make a sociologist smile, not a news reporter, so to speak
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:31 PM
 
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Look into depression and the distance from the equator.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:33 PM
 
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Look into depression and the distance from the equator.
Why now though? Why didn't people move in large numbers before the 1960s? Is there something in the water that's making people depressed nowadays that didn't for the past several thousand years?
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:36 PM
 
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People would rather live in the third world..

Look at life expectancy and distance from the equator.

Maybe emigrating abroad has become easier then it was 40 or so years ago?
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:40 PM
 
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Depression wasn't sexy until very recently.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:41 PM
 
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People would rather live in the third world..

Look at life expectancy and distance from the equator.

Maybe emigrating abroad has become easier then it was 40 or so years ago?
Well, if you're British, wouldn't you have been able to move to Australia, or somewhere similar in the Commonwealth, back then? Emigration might be key, but my gut tells me it's not one of the bigger reasons, because in the U.S. the Sunbelt region was rather empty compared to today before the 60s
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Old 10-28-2011, 11:36 PM
 
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Not me. I like subzero cold weather and blowing and drifting snow in the winter but I also like severe thunderstorms and heavy rain and flooding during spring and summer. Sioux Falls to Brookings to Watertown South Dakota eastward to about Hutchinson or Mankato Minnesota is probably my ideal climate. Langdon North Dakota has the coldest winters in the lower 48 which I like, but they don't have much of a severe weather season which I don't like.
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Old 10-29-2011, 12:46 AM
 
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I think it's all psychological... many people who live in the temperate zone equate the tropics with going on vacation and having a good time and living the good life... I think that's part of it.

I think seasonal affective disorder is also an important reason. This and many other mental health issues weren't that well known even 30-50 years ago... that's why not many people were aware of it and didn't equate sun exposure to mood... and didn't go down to the tropics en masse...

Technology is another reason you pointed out.. with the advent of ubiquitous air conditioning, people who don't like to sweat (I'm not one of them!) don't have to in the tropics.. they can pretend like it's summer all year round and crank the A/C low indoors and only go out into the heat when they feel like it...

Anyways, that's my 2 cents
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Old 10-29-2011, 04:26 AM
 
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I think it's all psychological... many people who live in the temperate zone equate the tropics with going on vacation and having a good time and living the good life... I think that's part of it.

I think seasonal affective disorder is also an important reason. This and many other mental health issues weren't that well known even 30-50 years ago... that's why not many people were aware of it and didn't equate sun exposure to mood... and didn't go down to the tropics en masse...

Technology is another reason you pointed out.. with the advent of ubiquitous air conditioning, people who don't like to sweat (I'm not one of them!) don't have to in the tropics.. they can pretend like it's summer all year round and crank the A/C low indoors and only go out into the heat when they feel like it...

Anyways, that's my 2 cents
Yeah the last one is big. And I think people dressed up more in the past. They also have more leisure time to enjoy outdoors.
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Old 10-29-2011, 04:45 AM
 
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Is there something to this phenomenon of temperate climate people wanting to flood the subtropics/tropics the past few decades? Does it coincide with the widespread affordability of residential air conditioning since the 70s/80s, or something else? Is it those pretty, colorful pictures on travel magazines, the euphoria that people who don't live near the beach in a hot climate that attracts people? Having been brought up in a place that the all-time record low is 60°F, 5 miles (as the crow flies) from the northern coast of PR, explain to me

I'm not looking for personal reasons of why you like that climate, I'm looking for discussion in a broad sense, something that would make a sociologist smile, not a news reporter, so to speak
Just throwing this out there but I assume you mean within the US? Then my guess would be because of the soothing effect heat has on old bones and joints, and the ready availability of spas, vacation spots (people being happy all the time) and states which actually cater to people wishing to have 'fun'. That and a natural tendency to take it (physically) a little slower (probably because of the heat), or because the majority are similarly situated.

Then I would attribute this phenomenon to the baby boomers reaching retirement, so it would seem to be escalating in the past few years, with much more instances to come.

IMHO

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