If you could leave HR, where would you go and why?

[CosmicWizard]

towncentergal wrote:

Any suggestions of a good place to move?

I'm happy with my new location....Grand Junction, CO. However, it's good for prospective residents to know that this is a place for active, outdoor types who can appreciate natures beauty and a good glass of local wine! If you like to eat locally grown organic produce, you'll find lots of that here too. No humidity either, and it's just about always sunny. Right now we're having daily highs between 95 and 100 and it's absolutely delightful weather because it's breezy, the sky is bright blue, and the air is very dry. Even during these hot days it cools down very nicely overnight with temps in the 60's. We don't get those 80 degree overnight lows. There's always some cool time...even on the hottest days. Heck I don't even have an air conditioner in my home, so you can imagine that electric bills are MUCh lower in the summer. In the winter time, half of my heat is supplied by opening the doors of the solarium which heats up very nicely whenever the sun is shining...even on the coldest days. Again, big savings on the fuel bills. If the only place you've ever lived is on the east coast, you have no idea what really good weather is like. Summer in Virginia Beach is the pits, IMO.

[froggin4colorado]

Cosmic, I am currently in COS and reading your posts about going to VA is giving me the blues. I hope I am okay and enjoy our adventure to Williamsburg, VA. However, I must admit, I LOVE Colorado Springs- GREAT weather!!!!

[CosmicWizard]

You'll do OK frogg....you get to come back to Colorado! Hampton Roads is a nice place to visit, but I'm glad to be outta there.

[Randomdude]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

towncentergal wrote:

Any suggestions of a good place to move?

I'm happy with my new location....Grand Junction, CO. Right now we're having daily highs between 95 and 100 and it's absolutely delightful weather because it's breezy, the sky is bright blue, and the air is very dry.

Until the snow starts up around the end of August huh?

[CosmicWizard]

Actually, the snow here in the Grand Junction area starts about mid December. In a typical year there is usually a total of about 10-12 inches ( at least it's been that way in the past three winters ). There is a monthlong period that feels like real winter from mid Dec thru mid Jan when it snows frequently, but with little actual accumulation. During that month long period there are some below zero temps. But, and this is an BIG but...it's just about always sunny and the air is very dry. It's far colder temperature wise than hampton roads, but it's more comfortable, without the grayness and the bone chilling dampness. Twenty degrees, under the bluest sky I've ever seen, and a brightly shining sun is far more comfortable to me than a gray, 55 degree day in Virginia Beach. To each his own, eh?

[Randomdude]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

Actually, the snow here in the Grand Junction area starts about mid December. In a typical year there is usually a total of about 10-12 inches ( at least it's been that way in the past three winters ). There is a monthlong period that feels like real winter from mid Dec thru mid Jan when it snows frequently, but with little actual accumulation. During that month long period there are some below zero temps. But, and this is an BIG but...it's just about always sunny and the air is very dry. It's far colder temperature wise than hampton roads, but it's more comfortable, without the grayness and the bone chilling dampness. Twenty degrees, under the bluest sky I've ever seen, and a brightly shining sun is far more comfortable to me than a gray, 55 degree day in Virginia Beach. To each his own, eh?

How similiar is the weather there to Denver? The company I work for has an office in Denver, and it was still snowing long in to April, and I think the snow started in early October.

[CosmicWizard]

The wide swath of the Rocky Mountains lies between Grand Junction and Denver, so the weather is often very different in the two locations. Denver gets alot more snow in the winter and it occassionally snows in September, and even in May. But it melts as soon as the sun hits it. Grand Junction ( just 25 miles from UTAH ) is located in the Red Rock, desert canyon country....more similar to Utah than most of Colorado. Denver on the other hand is situated in the Praries at edge of the Rocky Mountain foothills, but it too has a dry, sunny climate.

[damian]

sorry, for me I would rather be near the ocean than the mountains.

[towncentergal]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

towncentergal wrote:

Any suggestions of a good place to move?

I'm happy with my new location....Grand Junction, CO. However, it's good for prospective residents to know that this is a place for active, outdoor types who can appreciate natures beauty and a good glass of local wine! If you like to eat locally grown organic produce, you'll find lots of that here too. No humidity either, and it's just about always sunny. Right now we're having daily highs between 95 and 100 and it's absolutely delightful weather because it's breezy, the sky is bright blue, and the air is very dry. Even during these hot days it cools down very nicely overnight with temps in the 60's. We don't get those 80 degree overnight lows. There's always some cool time...even on the hottest days. Heck I don't even have an air conditioner in my home, so you can imagine that electric bills are MUCh lower in the summer. In the winter time, half of my heat is supplied by opening the doors of the solarium which heats up very nicely whenever the sun is shining...even on the coldest days. Again, big savings on the fuel bills. If the only place you've ever lived is on the east coast, you have no idea what really good weather is like. Summer in Virginia Beach is the pits, IMO.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh, PA, so I wouldn't want to go back to where it snows. However, it is sad that the past 2 years it hasn't really snowed here at all in Virginia Beach (I count "snowing" as actual inch or more and sticking - I don't mind it once or twice a year. The only time i miss snow is during Christmas week I also lived in Austin, TX (too hot there and some of the people that lived there creeped me out, and the cockroaches were HUGE!). Then I lived in Richmond which was ok, but slightly boring, and then i've been here for 14 years. Not sure how i've been here this long, I guess i'm just "used to it". Actually if it weren't for the unemployment rate being so high (husband not willing to risk leaving his job here) and owning a condo that nobody is going to buy, i'd probably be somewhere else, just not sure where.

[rtandc]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

towncentergal wrote:

Any suggestions of a good place to move?

I'm happy with my new location....Grand Junction, CO. However, it's good for prospective residents to know that this is a place for active, outdoor types who can appreciate natures beauty and a good glass of local wine! If you like to eat locally grown organic produce, you'll find lots of that here too. No humidity either, and it's just about always sunny. Right now we're having daily highs between 95 and 100 and it's absolutely delightful weather because it's breezy, the sky is bright blue, and the air is very dry. Even during these hot days it cools down very nicely overnight with temps in the 60's. We don't get those 80 degree overnight lows. There's always some cool time...even on the hottest days. Heck I don't even have an air conditioner in my home, so you can imagine that electric bills are MUCh lower in the summer. In the winter time, half of my heat is supplied by opening the doors of the solarium which heats up very nicely whenever the sun is shining...even on the coldest days. Again, big savings on the fuel bills. If the only place you've ever lived is on the east coast, you have no idea what really good weather is like. Summer in Virginia Beach is the pits, IMO.

GJ is a great place...I have visited there several times over the years......Too bad it is so far away from the ocean