[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

It's hot and humid in the summer. Lived in Sarasota back in the eighties, but I was a snowbird. People who lived here year round told me that you wouldn't believe how bad the humidity is in the summertime. Now I've been living here for 2-1/2 years and find that it's not all that bad. It really depends on you.

I just had a friend from the Boston area come down. Before she came I told her she should move down here since she is retired. Her first words were, "I could never tolerate the humidity". She got down here and she asked, "When does the bad humidity come in?" I said. this is it. And she said that she didn't understand why people make such a big deal about it. It didn't seem much different from Massachusetts.

Some people talk about it all the time, some of us just don't notice it after a while and go on enjoying our lives.

I have a neighbor who is a great guy, but every time I see him, he says something about how hot and humid it is. I always have the same response. "Well, it's August and this is Florida." He's been living here for about 15 years and he still goes on about it. I wonder if he thinks that it's going to change one of these summers.

I personally, would much rather have hot humid weather for a few months than freezing cold and snow. I'd rather not have to put on a sweater. So I don't complain about the humidity. If you are the type of person that loves the winter and goes skiing and doesn't like hot humid weather, you probably should retire to Maine or someplace like that.

But having said that, I think that for a lot of people, once they are down here for a while, they get used to it.