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Cause we have far better beaches lol. Yeah we can only use them in the summer, but the mud covered sand and brown ocean water of Texas beaches is very unappealing compared to blue green water up here and white sand.
Oh, and the record low in Brownsville, TX all the way at the bottom of the state is 12F. So just wait eventually the brutal cold will come down on your area and kill all those palm trees like it did in the 1980's. Texas can get very cold.
? I love visiting south and north padre in the fall and winter , great pompano,sheepshead black fishing there in the winter. even in the winter usually always in the 60s or 70s temp wise. very nice beaches down there, great food.
actually the fall and winter months tend to have that kind of really green water and the best time to visit without all the spring break masses
I just looked at the weather .73 degrees today there and water temps around 60. these palms on this live web cam look in pretty good shape to me
Family ties, I'm not making enough money to move, I couldn't deal with Southern politics, and I'm not as bad with cold as alot of other people. I anticipate spring but I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder.
There aren't many cities that are ONLY cold year round in the US. Chicago is known for harsh winters, but their record high is still 109! SLC's record high is only 107, though the average hottest month is 92, while Chicago's is 84. But Chicago has the humidity to deal with too. So basically what I'm saying is that just because a city like SLC gets hot in summer doesn't mean it's disqualified from being considered a cold city for this poll.
I get what you mean though is that some people dislike hot temperatures in general. They only 3/4 seasons, with summer being the one they don't like. But the question more being asked by the OP is why people live in a place that gets cold/snow in winter. With the answer of enjoying 4 distinct seasons, that's your closest option.
That was definitely one of the strangest things coming to Chicago from just a few hundred miles west in Iowa - NO mosquitoes.
I never thought about it before I moved here, but there are no open stagnant bodies of freshwater anywhere in the city except at the controlled lakes and ponds in the parks, but those are taken care of by the city to prevent and get rid of any mosquitoes.
15 years here and I've never been bitten once, I go back to Iowa in the summer and they're all over. I agree though, the south gets it worse than the upper Midwest unless you're sitting in a rural area right near stagnant ponds all over.
Minnesota definitely does not have more mosquitos. Maybe the southern 1/3...maybe, but I've been all over Minnesota in summer and most of the state is actually pretty cool at night, even in summer. It can actually get down into the 50's pretty commonly even in July/August, and they average low 60's in the hottest months. That's not conducive for a bad mosquito problem, and once you get into the boundary waters up north, forget about bugs. I spent weeks up there at a time and only had to worry about bugs during prolonged hot periods.
Miami isn't really that bad either, I didn't notice any bugs the few times I went there. Inland Florida is a completely different story.
Anyway, this list of worst cities for mosquitoes, which you can probably take with a grain of salt, agrees. It also puts Miami at number 13 and Minneapolis at number 15.
Minnesota definitely does not have more mosquitos. Maybe the southern 1/3...maybe, but I've been all over Minnesota in summer and most of the state is actually pretty cool at night, even in summer. It can actually get down into the 50's pretty commonly even in July/August, and they average low 60's in the hottest months. That's not conducive for a bad mosquito problem, and once you get into the boundary waters up north, forget about bugs. I spent weeks up there at a time and only had to worry about bugs during prolonged hot periods.
Miami isn't really that bad either, I didn't notice any bugs the few times I went there. Inland Florida is a completely different story.
Anyway, this list of worst cities for mosquitoes, which you can probably take with a grain of salt, agrees. It also puts Miami at number 13 and Minneapolis at number 15.
My friends that went to the Boundary Waters said the mosquitoes were pretty bad. Anyways, it doesn't have to be super hot for a bad mosquito problem, they just need plenty of water. Alaska supposedly has terrible mosquitoes in summer. But the species are different in cold weather areas than the ones you find in the tropics. In Minneapolis city they weren't bad but the suburbs they made life unpleasant. The worst place I've ever been for mosquitoes is Galveston, TX, just SE of Houston. I'm itchy just thinking about it.
I guess I'm basing my experience that way because we would travel there from Chicago area during summer. When we were in Chicago, I had more than 100 bites (as kids we felt inclined to compete...lol), but when we would venture up there it seemed bugs were non-existent, but I guess there could've been a few.
One reason I'm grateful for living in SoCal my whole life, that's for sure.
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