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do you shag too

the first 5 summers here were nice but the last six summers have been unbearable. my wife suffers more than me

Don't forget going to the pool!

Runicon, I shagged a few times and ended up with a daughter that names the rats that she feeds to her pet python after me. I don't shag anymore.(but I did like it)

Not picking on you Paul but will use your standard analogy to make a point. How many days did you really shovel snow? How many days was it unbearable to go out in the winter ? Been in both places. Summer in Florida - cabin fever much worse than up north winter. Every day has no relief in Florida summers. I get heat rash picking up the newspaper in the morning in summer. The right answer is get out of Florida in the summer. If that's not in the cards for you be very careful about what your doing. Rent for the month of July or August before committing yourself.

So far, no one has mentioned the problems you will have living in very humid conditions. Your joints will start to ache, and by the first month you will be limping around. In five years, you will not have the use of your hands either. After arriving here from California, I started limping right away, 2 people on my block had achilles tendon issues, and another needed a hip operation. What a coincidence! Could this be the weather? Look it up; humidity causes painful joint problems.

Well, hate to say so but you may be moving the wrong place unless you plan to only get outside early or after dark.

Correct. When we lived in Florida, the only time we could pick up our mail at the kiosk, which was a block away, was early in the am after it had cooled some during the night.

As we get older, our skin gets thinner, making us more sensitive to heat and humidity.

In all reality between June 1 to Oct 1 the weather here is brutal, without a/c the only people who be living in Fl would be the Seminoles-

You can't tolerate heat/humidity-and you moved to Florida?

Ha, ha........You forgot to mention humid conditions causing hemorrhoids and erectile disfunction and everything else.
I've lived in Florida for 64 years mostly in south Florida with a lot more humidity than here and I can assure you that most people in south Fla. are not limping around.

While the 'dead of summer' is definitely brutal here, living in Florida for a number of years now...I still prefer it over the 'dead of winter' where I used to live. :D

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A lot of TV residents take a "vacation" in July or August. A few even come to visit us in Illinois. It is hot and humid sometimes in Illinois but it's not all summer and not quite as severe or lengthy as in TV.

I can remember the hot humid summer nights growing up in Southern Illinois without AC. Our (my brother and I) bedroom was upstairs and a few nights in summer we slept on pallets in the living room with window fans. Oh, the good ol' days! It is cool with AC and you just get things done in early morning or late in the day. We adapt, modify, adjust and acclimate.

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.

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.