We live in South Florida and this year we are coming up to The Villages for the "winter weather!" :cold:

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I have experienced both climates:

For those who were raised in the northeast may not feel like it's not Xmas, because it is not cold. When you see a Xmas tree lighting, and it's eighty degrees outside.

My first Xmas tree lighting in TV, it was 80 degrees and it felt great. Everyone was in the spirit of Xmas. This seems, more preferable to "snow", and freezing one's butt off, as in Rockerfeller Center. It gets real cold in Manhattan, when it's windy and hitting you in the face, as it rounds the corners. I remember one year when you couldn't stand the cold, for more than an hour.

I too have my family in heaven, but I have a close cousin moving to Florida early next year and my son in Ft Lauderdale along with my granddaughter. I totally enjoy being with my family, and I will prefer it be, in the warmer climate.

Xmas in NY was really the best only because the whole family was living and together. I look back at those times fondly and longing that it that way just one more time.

BTW - I hate snow, except if I am watching a movie on television. :D

Being a Florida boy, I know little about snow. When it melts, where does the white go??

We can't believe the number of responses...thank you. Concensus is you can buy a dvd of snow falling. We posed this as a general question without writing a novel but maybe we should have put more into it. We live in a secondary snow belt and grew up celebrating the holidays in this weather. Unfortunately we have no children and all family is now gone. We also built a home in the villages so technically we are snowbirds. So we snowbirds thought it might be best to spend Christmas up North for a while and come down in January. I guess it all depends on your situation.

Secondary snow belt--Sounds like you may be in the Columbus area. We lived there for four years, and missed the snow. They would get tons of it in Mansfield, but very little in Columbus. So maybe a change of venue to down here with blue skies and sunshine would make up for lack of a white Christmas.

In any event, Merry Christmas to you!

Actually live in a secondary snow belt that gets Lake Erie's lake effect in Northern Summit County.

Merry Xmas to you and yours. :smiley:

Ok, we give up. We are sitting at the kitchen table watching the Lake Erie lake effect snow machine crank up a little with wind chills hovering in the single digits. I have to go out later and dread brushing the snow off the car. The decision has been made, next year we will be sitting on the lanai watching the golf balls bounce.
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One thing we can forget next year is the snow brushes!

There you go,. Now your talking. :smiley: