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Old 06-25-2015, 10:25 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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OP, I am from the west coast, and have lived in Northern CA (coast and inland) and Western WA. I moved to TN for 5 years (Nashville area) and we vacationed in FL (Seaside).

I don't think anywhere out here is going to feel humid to you. The coast will be cool and will be foggy sometimes, but that is not the same type of humidity you live with in FL.

So, I would not discount the coast. And the air quality should be great on the coast. It's much cooler in summer, and milder in winter, too.

I now live on the far north coast of CA, just across the OR border, and I love it. Never too hot, never too cold, and the air quality is fantastic.

FWIW.
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Old 07-06-2015, 03:52 PM
 
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OP, I am from the west coast, and have lived in Northern CA (coast and inland) and Western WA. I moved to TN for 5 years (Nashville area) and we vacationed in FL (Seaside).

I don't think anywhere out here is going to feel humid to you. The coast will be cool and will be foggy sometimes, but that is not the same type of humidity you live with in FL.

So, I would not discount the coast. And the air quality should be great on the coast. It's much cooler in summer, and milder in winter, too.

I now live on the far north coast of CA, just across the OR border, and I love it. Never too hot, never too cold, and the air quality is fantastic.

FWIW.
Thanks! That's a new suggestion, very helpful. Any specific towns in Northern California you might recommend? I'm not familiar with that area.
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Old 07-06-2015, 04:34 PM
 
Location: The beautiful Rogue Valley, Oregon
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Thanks! That's a new suggestion, very helpful. Any specific towns in Northern California you might recommend? I'm not familiar with that area.
You are not going to find "cool dry air" on the coasts (Nor California, Oregon or Washington). You are going to find between 66-90" of rain a year and considerable cloudiness and fog and fairly high humidity. The temps will be cool year-round, without any real snow.

The entire coast, from California through Washington, is a string of tiny towns with limited hospitals/medical and shopping, separated from higher population areas by a mountain chain, with the drive inland to larger cities being 1-2 hours over roads that can be dicey in winter.

If you are bringing a job with you or want a peaceful small-town retirement and prefer cool, often cloudy weather, the coast can be the right place.
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Old 07-06-2015, 05:32 PM
 
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You are not going to find "cool dry air" on the coasts (Nor California, Oregon or Washington). You are going to find between 66-90" of rain a year and considerable cloudiness and fog and fairly high humidity. The temps will be cool year-round, without any real snow.

The entire coast, from California through Washington, is a string of tiny towns with limited hospitals/medical and shopping, separated from higher population areas by a mountain chain, with the drive inland to larger cities being 1-2 hours over roads that can be dicey in winter.

If you are bringing a job with you or want a peaceful small-town retirement and prefer cool, often cloudy weather, the coast can be the right place.
Which locations would you suggest for cool, dry weather (even outside the PNW, if you know of any)? I was told East WA and central OR have this type of weather, but not the best economy for lawyers/legal work.
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Old 07-06-2015, 06:10 PM
 
Location: The beautiful Rogue Valley, Oregon
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Which locations would you suggest for cool, dry weather (even outside the PNW, if you know of any)? I was told East WA and central OR have this type of weather, but not the best economy for lawyers/legal work.
On this coast you have pretty much four vertical bands of weather from the Oregon border to Canada. Going from west-to-east:
1. The cool, rainy, humid, tourist-driven coast, cut off from the main valley by the Coast Range.
2. The maritime inland valleys (Eugene to Seattle, pretty much - all of the larger cities are in this zone). Rainy cool winters, dry warm summers. The further north you go, the cooler the summers. There is a lot of agriculture in these valleys, which means dust and pollens in the summer.
3. The Cascades (high mountains, no large cities, lots of snow and cold in the winter, short beautiful summers).
4. Central/Eastern Oregon and Washington. Two seasons, summer and winter, with a short fall. Cold in the winter, some snow which doesn't tend to stick around, warm but not too hot in the summer. Tends toward dry and dusty, which may or may not suit you. The largest cities would be Bend, OR; Pendelton, OR; Wenatchee, Wa; Yakima, Wa; Walla Walla, Wa; Spokane, Wa; Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Wa, Hanford, Wa, Pasco, Wa) and Spokane, Wa. (With the exception of Spokane, all of those cities are well under 100,000.) Temps vary with elevation.

There are some geographic exceptions - Southern Oregon (Ashland to Grants Pass, probably summers that are far too hot for you), Puget Sound in the Olympic Mountain rainshadow from Sequim to Port Townsend.

The problem for you with the inland west is that most of the larger cities are in valleys and have winter inversion problems from wood stoves and other burning and then the larger cities (like Denver) also have summer smog in the cities of the Front Range (and, for that matter, cities like Grand Junction on the west side of the Rockies have the same problems).
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Old 07-07-2015, 08:22 AM
 
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On this coast you have pretty much four vertical bands of weather from the Oregon border to Canada. Going from west-to-east:
1. The cool, rainy, humid, tourist-driven coast, cut off from the main valley by the Coast Range.
2. The maritime inland valleys (Eugene to Seattle, pretty much - all of the larger cities are in this zone). Rainy cool winters, dry warm summers. The further north you go, the cooler the summers. There is a lot of agriculture in these valleys, which means dust and pollens in the summer.
3. The Cascades (high mountains, no large cities, lots of snow and cold in the winter, short beautiful summers).
4. Central/Eastern Oregon and Washington. Two seasons, summer and winter, with a short fall. Cold in the winter, some snow which doesn't tend to stick around, warm but not too hot in the summer. Tends toward dry and dusty, which may or may not suit you. The largest cities would be Bend, OR; Pendelton, OR; Wenatchee, Wa; Yakima, Wa; Walla Walla, Wa; Spokane, Wa; Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Wa, Hanford, Wa, Pasco, Wa) and Spokane, Wa. (With the exception of Spokane, all of those cities are well under 100,000.) Temps vary with elevation.

There are some geographic exceptions - Southern Oregon (Ashland to Grants Pass, probably summers that are far too hot for you), Puget Sound in the Olympic Mountain rainshadow from Sequim to Port Townsend.

The problem for you with the inland west is that most of the larger cities are in valleys and have winter inversion problems from wood stoves and other burning and then the larger cities (like Denver) also have summer smog in the cities of the Front Range (and, for that matter, cities like Grand Junction on the west side of the Rockies have the same problems).
Thank you! This very detailed and helpful
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Old 07-07-2015, 10:03 AM
 
Location: The beautiful Rogue Valley, Oregon
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Thank you! This very detailed and helpful
Most of the lists I have seen for the best air quality look at ozone and particulates - but you may also want to consider dust and pollen. Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico generally score pretty well, but that might be a hotter summer than you want.
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Old 07-08-2015, 03:31 AM
 
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Most of the lists I have seen for the best air quality look at ozone and particulates - but you may also want to consider dust and pollen. Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico generally score pretty well, but that might be a hotter summer than you want.
Definitely. We were considering super dry regions like Arizona and NM, since they seem to have less allergens... but the heat index, yikes. My partner wasn't too excited about moving from one very hot location to another.
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