Originally Posted by sdm1222 (Post 2347569)

Stay on Long Island.
Moving to Florida is difficult, once you get to the Villages, it takes awhile to get everything done let alone adapt to the extreme heat and humidity.
If you think it's busy and congested on Long Island, wait until you spend a winter here with residents, snowbirds, visitors and people living in the surrounding communities.

Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers (Post 2347565)

Actually water doesn't cut it as the end all to the FL humidity headaches I get all the time. SALT is. Depending on how much one sweats and barometric pressure changes straight up salt might just relieve a headache. I have lived in tropic weather and FL since 1985. Salt has been my cure ever since moving from New England.

Many say drink electrolyte drinks or that the food they nibble replenishes the salt they have lost. Not so for this person. I carry a salt shaker on my golf cart. I can be inside my house and can feel a barometric change pre-storm. I will take about a dime size amount of salt and the headache goes away. When sweating a lot I will take about a nickle size amount of straight salt w a drink of water. The headache almost immediately subsides (drinking the normal amounts of 8 oz glasses of water throughout the day as well.)

My mom's best friend was an ER nurse. She used to say take straight up salt with water to cure dehydration at home. She would see patients all the time that were dehydrated even after drinking plenty of water and or electrolyte drinks. Too much water only dilutes salt levels in the body. Since the body is made up of like 75% water with a fraction of saline it makes sense. Saline drips is what the ER administers.

My grandfather living in FL used to take salt tablets to combat dehydration after working in the heat and sweating a lot.

Drinks have very small percentages of salt in relation to what one sweats out in the FL heat. The barometric pressure changes may also come into play. Salt works for me but to each their own. I'm not a Dr.

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive (Post 2347571)

Hmmmm.....

Minnesota (where I hail from) and Long Island do share one thing. Winter. And that means snow. Often lots of it. In my four years here I INFINITELY prefer a "winter" in TV than back in Minnesota. There's a lot to be said for not having to shovel out that 6' snowbank that the plow gifted you so you can get your car out of the garage.

Originally Posted by marvinh11791 (Post 2347127)

Hello. I am not a villager at this point, but I am considering it. I am still a New Yorker living on Long Island. I am now 78 and I am noticing even New York summers are causing me some headaches and some dizzyness. This gives me some concern. I'm not asking for doctor's advice. Just some opinions from villagers who might experience some headaches in the florida summertime heat. Or ways you deal with the heat. Thanks. MarvinH

Originally Posted by marvinh11791 (Post 2347127)

Hello. I am not a villager at this point, but I am considering it. I am still a New Yorker living on Long Island. I am now 78 and I am noticing even New York summers are causing me some headaches and some dizzyness. This gives me some concern. I'm not asking for doctor's advice. Just some opinions from villagers who might experience some headaches in the florida summertime heat. Or ways you deal with the heat. Thanks. MarvinH

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2347517)

I accept that anyone who comes to Florida "for the weather" is delusional.

Originally Posted by marvinh11791 (Post 2347127)

Hello. I am not a villager at this point, but I am considering it. I am still a New Yorker living on Long Island. I am now 78 and I am noticing even New York summers are causing me some headaches and some dizzyness. This gives me some concern. I'm not asking for doctor's advice. Just some opinions from villagers who might experience some headaches in the florida summertime heat. Or ways you deal with the heat. Thanks. MarvinH

Originally Posted by CybrSage (Post 2347634)

Why would accept something so absurd?

A great many move to Florida to escape places where the air literally hurts your face, shatters your nose hairs, and you have to blink a lot to prevent your eyes from starting to freeze over due to how far below 0°F it is. Places where governor's fove warnings that going outside could kill you in minutes without extreme weather gear. This is in the contiguous US.

Was in Minnesota when it was -53°F before the wind chill (lowest on record was in 1996 at -60°F) and you claim it is delusional to want to move to Florida for the weather? Why do you make that claim, is it because it gets a kinda hot and muggy for a few months and is amazing the bulk of the year?