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Originally Posted by rustyp
Not picking on you Paul but will use your standard analogy to make a point. How many days did you really shovel snow? How many days was it unbearable to go out in the winter ? Been in both places. Summer in Florida - cabin fever much worse than up north winter. Every day has no relief in Florida summers. I get heat rash picking up the newspaper in the morning in summer. The right answer is get out of Florida in the summer. If that's not in the cards for you be very careful about what your doing. Rent for the month of July or August before committing yourself.
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Thanks for the advice Rusty but I lived seven years in South Florida and 4 years in Houston TX (if you want to talk about hot and humid) I also have lived for 25 years in the Raleigh NC area and own 2 condos in Myrtle Beach SC where I have been many times during the summer. . I have been in hot humid weather most of my life. Now that I am retired, we may actually buy a place up north for the winter in a year or two. Last year I spent 6 weeks in upstate NY and it was miserably hot and about half the people we visited had no A/C. If we get a place up there it will definitely have central air. I hate snow and winters. We owned a home in the country for 6 years in Pennsylvania and I commuted 25 miles each way to work. Absolutely miserable. I went to college at the State University of NY at Oswego. Have you ever heard of lake effect snow ? Have you ever seen 10 feet of snow dropped in a weekend ? Have you ever felt what it fells like when the wind chill factor is -80 degrees with the winds coming off of Lake Ontario ? Oh, I have experienced plenty of cold in my life and I still prefer not having to shovel snow and dealing with the summers in the south.