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jj, while those northerners are cooped up inside their houses doing nothing but over-eating and studying, southererns are barbecuing, chillaxin by the pool, enjoying the sun with some fine ladies, etc. I'll take the southern lifestyle thank you very much!
its kind of funny how the states in the south are listed with the highest obesity rates
you can only be out in that cold for so long before it has adverse effects on your health. with the heat, all u need is some water and maybe some lotion. don't worry about your back, that fine lady in a bikini will help you out. what are you going to do? have a pretty girl wearing a marshmellow suit buckle up your skis?
Tell you what, I'll change places with you. You can have the ultra conservative, super high heat and humidity of GA and I'll take the liberal cold of the Upper Midwest!
translation = I'm narrow minded and my way is the only way of thinking. Anybody with different tastes is crazy because I'm close minded.
I'm personally awaiting a credible explanation as to why his profile says "Normal" after sexual orientation, as if people like me are mutants. I still don't even know why he felt the need to bring up the fact that he lives near gays in his reply to you. Why are so many straight guys so damn fascinated by gay guys---we don't have cooties you know!
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jj, while those northerners are cooped up inside their houses doing nothing but over-eating and studying, southererns are barbecuing, chillaxin by the pool, enjoying the sun with some fine ladies, etc. I'll take the southern lifestyle thank you very much!
Not necessarily. At least with me, I was most active during the winter months with sports. Even in the snowstorms, we would drive all over the north to my hockey games/tournaments
Seriously? You'd take 30k and pretty much be stuck wherever you're living over 92k and the financial freedom to jet off to Europe, Japan, wherever? Eating at Red Lobster for a special occasion over eating at a world-renowned restaurant? etc., etc.
And my take on cold weather is it makes you appreciate the summer that much more. I've found that people who live in warm climates for the most part brag about it, but rarely take advantage of it. Whereas people in the north practically live outside during the summer.
lol, that is my thinking... and why I went to Chicago... not for THAT extreme, but about twice as much as the pay I would have got in Florida.
I am back here now and the low pay only gets me the weather, not much worth doing here to go out, and can't afford to get out! lol...leaving in June so I will have made it 6 months! It is late march and already too humid for my taste.
I am a big athletic guy and sweat extremely easily (little trivia: athletes start sweating easier, more and sweat at a lower body temperature)... It isn't about the HEAT so much but the HUMIDITY HUMIDITY HUMIDITY. I'd take 100 and no humidity any day over florida 75 and humid. I feel like I can't cool off here in Florida that I'm constantly sweating.
I always thought the northern cities tried to cram as much as possible into the summer months
A1withnature, you are a bit out of touch of lifestyles in the south if you think that is what it is, that is what people on VACATION here do, not people actually living.
I'm personally awaiting a credible explanation as to why his profile says "Normal" after sexual orientation, as if people like me are mutants.
lol!!!!
I actually had a running bet with another cd'er on how long it would take for someone to notice that and get offended and how they would respond. I lost I figured somebody would have picked up on it within the first week. I lost 20$.
I wouldn't want to live in a dying north rust belt city as they currently have been the last decade or so, shorter for others, more for some. And I don't see many people doing this or liking it.
Instead of drastic measures to get out of the cold or their situation to an extreme change in places like Florida, I think more might be happier to go somewhere like Minneeapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh which have fared much better and closer to the life I imagine they used to have.
I love how this evolved into a North vs. South thread.
Anyway, I've spent some time up north and I really didn't see too much happening in Milwaukee (isn't that just a suburb of Chicago? j/k.), Detroit or Cleveland. Detroit actually is a happening city, but all this fear and flight in that area really hurts its potential. I will agree that the weather could be the primary factor as to why everything up there is either 'dead' or stuck in some sort of time warp. But then again, Chicago, Minneapolis and Toronto (yeah, I know) appear to be much more active than their northern siblings.
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