[bluedog103]

As a kid growing up in Alabama I was used to intense heat. I had 3 uncles who lived a few miles from what is now The Villages. When my parents said we were going to Florida to visit relatives in the summer I really, really didn't want to go. The combined heat and humidity were, to me, near unbearable. I hated it, even though my uncles had kids my age to play with. That was in the days when everything wasn't air conditioned, but even then, as a kid, there was no way I was staying indoors all day.
Now I'm a snowbird. For us, that's the best of all worlds. It gets me out of the northeast and all the snow in the winter and gets me out of the intense heat in the summer. Someday I'll have to pick a place to live out my days and I honestly don't know if that will be the north or the south.