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Where would you have gone? NZ? What about Tassy in your own country?
In the SH, easily NZ's South Island West Coast.
If I moved to the NH, easily the UK. My best mate is now in Edinburgh, posted some pictures on FB, cloudy, grey and showery with the temperature at 16C (mid summer), wearing winter woolies and he loves it
Tassie, especially the eastern part, doesn't get as much rain like Sydney does and is too sunny for its latitude with Hobart recording around 650mm per annum and over 2300 hours of sun - not my cup of tea. The western part is easily wet and cloudy but I prefer to live in megacities - small town living doesn't do it for me.
Interesting post! Up until last year, I lived all my life in Illinois - hot and humid summers and cloudy, cold and damp winters with snow. The older I got, the more I wanted a sunny, dry, warm climate - especially after visiting many places over the years. The two things that kept us from moving were family and work.
As technology advanced, my employer became open to teleworking arrangements (one roadblock solved). I also convinced family to move with us (wasn't hard after they visited). So, last fall we all moved to southwest Utah, which is my ideal climate: 320+ days of sun, dry, mild winters with no snow, and plenty of outdoor activies year-round. Great for boating, hiking, skiing, mountain biking. In the spring, you can actually snow skin in the morning and water ski in the afternoon with very little drive time. During the hot summers, it's just a quick 30 minute drive to higher elevations where it's 20+ degrees cooler. Just interesting to consider - there are places where you can experience all 4 seasons within an hours drive, without having to live in all 4 seasons. We took a risk and it paid off. Where there's a will, there's often a way. My advice - find a way.
This is great advice. I take it you aren't far from Vegas either which is an added bonus. Amazing how many move to Florida thinking it is paradise full of so many outdoor activities but yet end up prisoners to the AC.
Climate wise I would find being stuck in St George at lower elevations in mid summer to be brutal. We all need an escape like you say whether higher elevation or large bodies of water nearby or you end up stuck inside like folks in northern climates are in winter Average Weather for Saint George, UT - Temperature and Precipitation
In the SH, easily NZ's South Island West Coast.
If I moved to the NH, easily the UK. My best mate is now in Edinburgh, posted some pictures on FB, cloudy, grey and showery with the temperature at 16C (mid summer), wearing winter woolies and he loves it
Tassie, especially the eastern part, doesn't get as much rain like Sydney does and is too sunny for its latitude with Hobart recording around 650mm per annum and over 2300 hours of sun - not my cup of tea. The western part is easily wet and cloudy but I prefer to live in megacities - small town living doesn't do it for me.
I'm glad someone wants to live on the West Coast. I worked there last spring and the weather was diabolical. Hail on about half the days, lightning strikes on the road in front of us, almost constant squalls and a damaging tornado on the last day. On the other hand, the last frost where I stayed, was about 3 years earlier.
A great place to visit, but I wouldn't live there.
I'm glad someone wants to live on the West Coast. I worked there last spring and the weather was diabolical. Hail on about half the days, lightning strikes on the road in front of us, almost constant squalls and a damaging tornado on the last day. On the other hand, the last frost where I stayed, was about 3 years earlier.
A great place to visit, but I wouldn't live there.
You copped a worse than average season though - and it's normally the worst season there anyway, but your point is taken. Hokitika has several times topped the national sun stakes in a month of unusual conditions however ... I'd still take it over Dunedin or Invercargill.
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