Has moving to a warm climate made you happy?

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by pigeonhole

You all forget the light factor,guys! the light is so more beautiful in tropical/subtropical climates, more intense, more real!

OK, but I live in a city that gets almost 350 days a year of FULL SUN. When we have an overcast day, you can really see the subtlety in the colors and textures of your surroundings. The intense, direct sun just makes everything look like you are watching TV, flat, artificial and garish.

The superior resolution on cloudy/overcast days may have something to do with the fact that your eyes can relax and you don't have to squint every second of the day. I know people who have their sunglasses bolted to their faces. I don't think they have seen the outside world without looking through a lens of plastic in many years.

Let me also say here that I worked outdoors year round for many, many years and the only time the temperature was a bother was when it was really hot (over 85 or so). When it is cold, your activity warms you up and you can always put on layers. When it is too hot, there is no possible way to cool off short of dousing yourself with water which in the desert is a semi-mythological substance :-).


ABQConvict

[ChrisC]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

OK, but I live in a city that gets almost 350 days a year of FULL SUN. When we have an overcast day, you can really see the subtlety in the colors and textures of your surroundings. The intense, direct sun just makes everything look like you are watching TV, flat, artificial and garish.

The superior resolution on cloudy/overcast days may have something to do with the fact that your eyes can relax and you don't have to squint every second of the day. I know people who have their sunglasses bolted to their faces. I don't think they have seen the outside world without looking through a lens of plastic in many years.

Let me also say here that I worked outdoors year round for many, many years and the only time the temperature was a bother was when it was really hot (over 85 or so). When it is cold, your activity warms you up and you can always put on layers.

I love an overcast, coolish (say 45 degree) day with mist (not quite fog) in the air. It gives everything this sort of haunting surreal quality. I love that! Great jogging weather!

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

When it is too hot, there is no possible way to cool off short of dousing yourself with water which in the desert is a semi-mythological substance :-).
ABQConvict

Luckily, I don't do really heavy outside labor for work anymore. Baking in the sun at work is just miserable. I remember guzzling two liter bottles of water all day long and still feeling thirsty, and getting off work with my skin just caked with body 'salt.' I'd go to work at 150 pounds and get off at 145 pounds. MAN am I glad I don't have to do that anymore!

[António Oliveira Salazar]

i live in portugal. what can i ask more. best country in the world no war, lots of sun, beaches. just love it.