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I'll take a well-paying job over warm climate any day. But that's just me.
I'm the opposite, I would take a 30k/yr job in beautiful weather any day. What good is it making 92k in a place where you can't enjoy but only 4 months out of the year. Ever drive in snow, you have to have a winter car if you have a nice car.
winter is fine through Christmas, then Jan, Feb, and March stink like the dickens. white christmas, first snow...i can dig all that. what i can't dig, is the boringness (if that's even a word) of those first 3 months of every year. that's why i always "try" to go on a vacation in january or february to a place like key west or miami or both.
This is a good perspective. Offer your opinion and resist the temptation to criticize folks with opinions different from your own.
Negative-premise threads here usually descend into a quagmire of personal attacks. Let's do what we can to make this one the exception.
Thanks... I try ( though sometimes I take the bait and get sucked into arguments that I just can't resist) to take that approach mostly.
Unfortunately, this thread doesn't seem to be taking the higher ground approach... it looks as if it's getting personal. Guess I'm done with this topic!
I'm the opposite, I would take a 30k/yr job in beautiful weather any day. What good is it making 92k in a place where you can't enjoy but only 4 months out of the year. Ever drive in snow, you have to have a winter car if you have a nice car.
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.
winter is fine through Christmas, then Jan, Feb, and March stink like the dickens. white christmas, first snow...i can dig all that. what i can't dig, is the boringness (if that's even a word) of those first 3 months of every year. that's why i always "try" to go on a vacation in january or february to a place like key west or miami or both.
As an unrecognized member of the "Royal Order of the 21ster's" we believe that Winter officially ends after the Winter Solstice (Dec 21st) when the days start getting longer. January ain't nuthin' but a couple weeks of below zero weather and those temps generally occur when we are sleeping anyways. I can spit from one end of February to the other and it flies by in a heartbeat. By March, the sun is so high in the sky you hardly need more than a hooded sweatshirt. I only wish that we had more snow to give us more to do. Plus, the brief winter is enough to drive all the bums and ner'-do-wells down to Florida and California where they can frolic with those pretty gals that are so attracted to men of that ilk.
Of course, summer will be over here in late June as the days start getting shorter. Then we have fall but that usually lasts 5 or 6 months. I'd show you a graph but it's all pretty technical and requires a suspension of reality.
I can't believe for the life of me why people would want to be conservative.
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Originally Posted by At1WithNature
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!
Overeating? Aren't the most obese states in the south?
you sound like me except i don't live by gays but i'm in chicago and love the warmth (there is nothing better than feeling that undisturbed pure sunshine on your skin). i just got back from the florida keys, i suggest you do the same. you should move down south. it's more cost effective than the southwest. Plus, the people in the LA and PHX areas are pretentious. You won't get that down south. You'll get women who know how to cook, treat a man, and be a woman. the "ladies" up north are often masculine and forget how to be tactful (really northerners aren't tactful for the most part). but the women know how to be women in places like georgia and south carolina. i'm gonna get me a georgia peach one day.
I really hate this trend of everybody moving Down South or Out West because they can't handle the cold weather. I fear if everybody lives in the Sun Belt, then the U.S. is going to devolve into a third-world nation. If you look all around the world, the countries with warm climates are the most primitive. Look at Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, the Middle East, etc. The most civilized nations have temperate climates like Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, UK, etc. Look at our own country as an example of this trend. Who do you think is smarter, people from the North or the South?
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Most Educated States
1. Vermont
2. Connecticut
3. Massachusetts
4. New Jersey
5. Maine
6. Minnesota 7. Virginia
8. Wisconsin
9. Montana
10. New York
Least Educated States 41. Tennessee
42. Hawaii 43. Alabama
44. Alaska 45. Louisiana
46. California
47. Nevada
48. New Mexico 49. Mississippi
50. Arizona
this says it all. one of the most educated states and 4 in the least educated states are in the south
way to go "ya'll"
Last edited by Yac; 05-05-2009 at 06:36 AM..
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