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Originally Posted by duffysmom
Hi Senior, renting for a few months during the Winter is a great idea. We lived in the Hudson Valley for many years and the humidity was intense with a low cloud cover on many days in the Summer. Not good. Florida is hot and humid in the Summer but the light is incredible. An important factor in my well being. Come on down!!!!
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We are snowbirds from the Mid-Hudson Valley and can confirm the constant relative humidity up north (and not just in the Hudson Valley...). I 'enjoy' osteoarthritis, feel infinitely more comfortable here in central FL (though I wonder if I'd feel the same near the coasts, say, Tampa area or Fort Lauderdale), and I have heard this same comment from many.
Insofar as multiple sclerosis is concerned, we personally know three people who could NOT tolerate the heat (they seem to feel that humidity, while still an issue, is less so than heat) and had to move back north. All three had made an assumption that getting out of northern winters would be a charm, and it certainly wasn't! Then we have friends near though not in TV whose son has MS, and it reached the point where they had to move him to a nursing home here in central FL as they simply couldn't leave him alone in NY. The results are mixed: He is happy to be close by to his parents who provide a lot of the care for him, and he has settled into the nursing home (has a girlfriend, etc. there), but the climate is a killer and his only outdoor time (which he very much misses) is being transported from the nursing home to his parents' home and back, meaning very little time without a/c but enough to add to his discomfort. It's a terrible disease....
The third condition asked about in the original post I'm not familiar with. Hope this helps.