Looking to Relocate from S.East to Boston Region (Worcester: how much, home)

[TD Ryan]

Hello I'm a 35y/o man working in the medical field w/ no family looking to find a home where I can work on that last part. But first there are some things these poss cities must meet for criteria.

1. I'm looking to live in SNOW, as well as experience a place that gets its seasonal months as well.
Also trying to avoid HUMIDITY at any costs.

2. An area that offers plenty of extracurricular activity options.

3. Must have a good dating pool, as I will of course be looking to find a good woman to tell me what to do.

Disclaimer: Please avoid any financial or economy based responses it's been my experience on this site that those topics quickly get off pt of what I'm trying to find out.
I know the economy is bad, and worse in some places. That being said I sure would like any help u folks could give me.

Thanks!

[missionhill]

So what do you want to know, TD?

[TD Ryan]

Originally Posted by missionhill

So what do you want to know, TD?

Where are best places to live up in the NE'st that get plenty of snow? I've visited Boston before for a weekend while living in Ct, but never really got to see snow.

Looking for a place where people are nice and has lots of options, not really looking for Boston most likely outskirts.

[mainegrl2011]

Maine and the other New England states get snow but the amount varies from year to year. If you want SNOW, I hear Buffalo, NY has tons of it.

[missionhill]

Oh, I see. You asked about the Boston region and there's not much difference in snowfall just around Boston. In New England in general, plenty of snow=higher elevations, more north, and away from the seacoast. Much of NH, VT and ME get plenty. Conn and RI don't get as much. In Mass the Worcester area historically gets a lot, or at least more than eastern Mass--but eastern Mass gets plenty by most people's standards. You also get lots west of the Conn River where elevations run to 1500 ft and more, but in the Conn River valley, where the happening scene, there's not as much. Lots of the snow this winter has come down in Northeasters, which invert the usual patterns and tend to leave more snow along the coast and often farther south--they had a foot and a half in Washington just before X-mas, for example. And yes, Buffalo, NY, and really all along the Lake Ontario shore there can be huge snowfalls due to "lake effect" weather patterns. Have fun!

[ogre]

How much change do you want in humidity? It does get humid here during the summer. If you live in the very deep South at present, you'll notice a significant difference in the combination of heat and humidity in MA. Compared to the mid or upper South, there is still a difference, though less difference. MA will have fewer really hot days (in the 90's) than the Carolinas for example, and the summers here are shorter, but you won't completely escape hot, humid weather here.

Although the warmest part of summer in MA lasts only about 2-1/2 or three months, it can get muggy here, and a typical summer will have a few brief spells of daytime highs in the 90's. If you really want to escape humidity, you'll probably need to move west of the Mississippi. If you want to stay in the east, farther north in New England (Maine, northern NH or VT) will put you in territory where most summers have only brief spells of unpleasantly sultry weather here and there but are generally very pleasant.

[holden125]

Missionhill is right about snow patterns. Central Mass. (Fitchburg, Worcester) tends to get a lot. I'm not sure that's a reason to live in that area. Closer to Boston, there is a lot more snow most years north of the city than south. Place like Buffalo and Cleveland, and of course the very upper Midwest like Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc., do tend to get a lot more snow than Boston.

As ogre said, there is humidity in the summer but nothing like the Southeast.

If you want snow without humidity, you might want to think about the Denver area. Plenty of snow in the Rockies and foothills, and in town as well, though Denver is sometimes more mild in winter. A strange climate in Denver. The average high temp in the winter is in the mid-40's, a bit higher than in Boston, but the lows tend to be lower, and in my (somewhat limited) experience they're more likely to have a brief spell with less than 10 degree weather in Denver than we are in Boston, but more likely to have 55 or 60 in January too. Denver is a nice city, and a good dating scene as far as I know.