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Originally Posted by pauld315
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.
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I've seen close to ten feet of snow fall in a weekend - and unless you were at Tug Hill on that weekend you didn't since that was a record in northern NY. And yes it can get hot and humid in Binghamton NY once in a while. The point is hot and humid is EVERY day EVERY minute in Florida in summer. And there are people that love that. I'm one that can not function like that. It made me a prisoner to my house. Never have I had that experience in winter up north. My point is if your plan is to live in Florida year round you should try it out first in the hot times. Most people try it out during winter - well that's only half the story.