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I was retired for a year before we moved here, and living in VA, we could play most of the year. I retired in late February and we had some playable days. I ran into some guys from work one day and they asked how my golf game was. I told them I was playng in the 60's. When they looked at me with disbelief, I said "If it's colder than that I don't go out."

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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1870902)

I went out to get the mail yesterday and thought that it was incredibly cold. I was thinking that it must be 40 degrees or lower. I got home and checked the outdoor thermometer and saw that it was 61.

Been here eight years and can't stand it when it gets below 75.

And your point is? It’s nice to have cold weather after 10 months of brutal hot sticky weather with
bugs!

You and i will NEVER be a floridian, we will always be from away! I am from Boston and lived in Maine for 20 years. And i was ALWAYS refered to as a "flatlander"

And shorts weather starts at 50 degrees!!!

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 1870964)

I am stuck up north in Westerm, MA

Where in Western MA? I'm from the Springfield area.
It took less than a year for me to acclimate to the weather here. First of all, I love the heat. But anything under 75, and I'm probably in a light jacket or sweatshirt and jeans. I just don't like the cool weather.

Grew up about 15 miles north of Springfield in Northampton (actually was raised there, still have not grown up). Now split time between the Villages and our Log Home in the Bearkshires. Still golf in the greater Springfield area often. Played Oak Ridge in Feeding Hills last Thursday.

I know I'm becoming a Floridian. I've got to deal with this for a few more months until I can come down for good, although I'll be there in a week.

It's not even enough to push, just enough to make it cold and miserable.

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 1870987)

So its not just me.

Grew up in NYC where 40 degrees was wear a light jacket and spend the day outside weather.

Been walking 1/2 mile each morning to get the mail from previous day and than go home and have breakfast.

Now have breakfast and wait for weather to warm up before venturing outside.

This morning had some early errands and actually wore a down jacket.

who would have thought. And we are only here 10 months

Imagine after 23 years!

The only ice I want is in my drink.

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1870957)

Back in Maryland we usually stopped golfing in late October or early November, most times it snowed on Thanksgiving. I remember my last year, I moved here in June 2011 and that year, the day after New Year's January 2, 2011 I played golf. When I got to the course it was biggest crowd I had ever seen, bigger than in the summer. The parking lot was packed and the golf pro was running around like a chicken. It was suppose to 50 today in the Baltimore area.

When I got to the pro shop the pro was collecting money, then ten minutes later I was my car putting my shoes on and the pro drove up in a cart and said, this is your cart, your group is on the tee, I couldn't believe I was going off so quick. He was doing everything himself at golf course that day. I guess normally they have only a few golfers and he runs the whole show, this day there was a big wait, so being a single really paid off. My usual golfing partner didn't want to play.

I looked back at the weather that day when I teed off and we thought it was balmy.

Sunday, January 2, 2011, 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm Baltimore, MD

46 / 46 °F
More clouds than sun.
Humidity:53%
Barometer:29.96 "Hg
NW Wind:8.078 mph

Back in the 70s and 80s I played a lot of winter golf on Cape Cod. They usually get very little snow because of the salt air what snow they get disappears pretty quickly so many golf courses stay open year round. I definitely played a few rounds with the temperature in the thirties.

I read a great book about a journalist who moved to St Andrews with his family. There was (possibly still is) a character there who played golf 365 days a year regardless of weather. One day during a blizzard a friend asked him what hole he thought George was on that day.

And don't forget about the numerous polar bear clubs up north (in Boston they are the L-Street Brownies) that swim in the ocean year round.

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Originally Posted by Curtisbwp (Post 1871391)

You and i will NEVER be a floridian, we will always be from away! I am from Boston and lived in Maine for 20 years. And i was ALWAYS refered to as a "flatlander"

Maine is different. I spent a summer in northern Maine once. I learned that there were three kinds of people there. Natives, southerners (people from Portland) and those "from away".

You could have been born in Boston and moved to northern Maine when you were two years old, lived there for 50 years and you were still "from away".

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Originally Posted by crash (Post 1871260)

Let me guess wearing shorts and sandals. 😌

I wear shorts every day but when it gets below 75 I put on shoes and a sweatshirt.

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Originally Posted by EviesGP (Post 1870965)

That's what I call my wife(who was born and raised at the Canadian border in Maine), and has only been here 2 years. If it gets below 75, she contemplates wearing sleeves and pants. Cheers!

Back in the 70s I took a golf vacation with some friends to Myrtle Beach. The weather there can be iffy. 75 and sunny one day, 45 and cloudy the next. One day we were on the golf course and it was one of those 45 and cloudy days. We were all bundled up in sweaters, long underwear and rain suits. We came to a tee where the group in front of us was just walking off the tee. We noticed that they were all in shorts and short sleeved golf shirts. As we were waiting in the tee, a ranger came by and chatted. We mentioned that the group in front of us appeared to be underdressed. He said one word, "Canadians"

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Originally Posted by KRM0614 (Post 1871377)

And your point is? It’s nice to have cold weather after 10 months of brutal hot sticky weather with
bugs!

It was only hot for about six months. And I don't know where you live, but the only bugs I see in The Villages are love bugs which are around for about two weeks.

I'll take hot and humid any day over temps in the 30s and 40s.

It always amazes me that some people move to Florida and complain about the hot weather. What did they think it was going to be?

Similar Pedigrees

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Originally Posted by Scott O (Post 1871160)

Born in Buffalo NY, lived 24 years in Upstate NY. Moved to Atlanta 28 years, now at TV...and we freeze if it’s below 65-70. Would not move back north for anything! Chilly morning outside today! 🥶🥶🥶

We have very similar pedigrees, only mine started in Syracuse.. college Rochester, work Endicott and Atlanta.. Villages. only my blood hasnt thinned out yet. Haven;t even thought about turning on the heat yet

The cooler weather is quite refreshing to me after the long hot and humid summer we had down here in TV.