OT maybe thinking of moving to a cooler place.

Hello hambers.
My girl and I have been flirting with the idea of moving to a cooler place..
I hate the snow,she loves water,lake,falls,river beach etc....
We both love trees and shi$.
Im an union tinknocker and have done a bunch of odd jobs but pretty good at wood work but I rather not play with a table saw anymore..
We dont want a giant place but a small house with enough space would be ideal..
I know rent/mortgage is over the place but I'd like to hear opinions..

I bettered my self just by reading threads here when people where looking for good opportunities and stuff so I thank the hamb for it.
Currently im working for one of the nations department and im pretty happy but the heat is getting to me.
I'd like to go somewhere cool but not freezing and where it doesn't rain all the time..
CA is out of the question and it ****s because its such a beautiful place..
Im looking around Idaho,maybe Utah.
If you guys ain't have anything to do and want to share your input,I'd appreciate it.

 

Just exactly what is your tolerance for freezing??? Duluth, MN is nice between May and October. Can get a bit snowy and chilly during those other months....

https://pbsnorth.org/2023/04/is-duluth-a-climate-safe-haven/

 

You want to move to Knoxville, TN.

but I don't know what you'd do for work.

 

I spent a couple years back and forth to Twin Falls ID. Well below freezing (20’s) and the occasional 100 in the summer. Boise isn’t much different, but I think it gets more snow.

I was involved in a large agricultural plant . Pretty unusual that it was all union labor. But that’s a tough environment for work over there, so look close.

My grandson just spent 5 years in Salt Lake in college. You get cold and snow, and hot in the summer. For a snowboarder and mountain biker it was great. He did miss the surfing. For the rest of us…..?

 

30 years ago I would have suggested Seattle and Western Washington. Lots of water, lakes, rivers, falls, beaches and trees. Sometimes snow, but not much and not for long. It does rain a bit, but now a small house in the Seattle area is 1.2 million and up. That and the farmland north and south just flooded due to the rivers overflowing. Smaller towns farther north and on the coast might be more affordable, but work might be hard to come by.

 

This is why so many are "Snowbirds". The original Nomads (the people, not the Chevys) had the right idea.

 

Well if you want cooler you can't go wrong with Michigan.... Lol. Lots of lakes, where I live no matter where you are there's a lake less than five minutes away. Cool lake front restaurant scene, good car scene.

But the cooler may be longer and deeper than you're searching for sometimes. Some winters are mild. This last was epic tho.

 

Kinda the banana belt here for weather. Gets a little cold, not really this winter though. No snow this winter to speak of. Getting a little hotter in the summers now. Indian summers, late September through October can be gorgeous. Real estate is getting on the expensive side. Not sure about the work situation for your occupation. Traffic is getting to be a real *****, construction everywhere. Mountains are a half hour away, water about the same. I grew up here, so I don’t have anywhere else to compare it to, but it isn’t the place I grew up in anymore. I guess nowhere is. Good luck on your search, hope you find a good place to start over.

 

Thanks for all answers..
Im reading them all.
We're not looking for comfort or luxury,nor do I have to be in the union...
I know I could work anywhere as long as im happy..
Las vegas is ok..but it's getting crazy..
Horrible drivers,shootings,tweakers everywhere..
My neighborhood is getting a nice 900 bed facility to house the unhoused because the casinos want to clean their areas..I know what it's going to turn into...
So we're flirting with the idea..

 

I've been at a lot of places in this big old country.
The norther 1/2 gets long cold winters, and shorter, but cooler summers.
The southern 1/2 gets long hot summers, and cool, shorter winters. The lines between the north and the south weather patterns are not usually straight lines.
The thin area between can split the cold winters and the hot summers, but gets more ice storms in the winters, and tornadoes in the summers, and is more prone to have radical temp swings.
Ain't no place been 'normal' over the last few years.
Any larger city has more violence and crazy drivers then smaller towns, but the bigger towns have better job opportunities, and usually nicer amenities, but some smaller towns are great. As much as we hate to discus it, state and local politics has a huge roll in what a community is like. Lots of areas across the country have m***ive number of people moving out of, or moving into them. Every one of those areas with a lot of people moving into or out of, will likely see huge effects for next years cost of living.
I would suggest that you visit a location you think looks promising, and spend a few weeks there and talk with a few merchants during those few weeks, before you jump in. How they act can tell you a lot more then what they say.
Some times the very place we want to get away from, are the places we are suppose to be.

 

North Georgia gets my volt , but lots of snakes

 

One day building a shed

 

Myrtle Beach is FULL !! Sorry.... You don't want the humidity either.
I was thinking about Vegas...(it's a dry heat....right ?!
6sally6
PS North Georgia is nice...especially north EAST Ga.

 

Arizona.
Just east of downtown kingman is Hualapai Mountain with trees and such. Prescott is real nice too Also the white mountains further to the east.

 

Hey Seth, I know you like it up here, would be cool to have you nearby. Winter can get tiresome for a car guy that likes to drive them though. Plus it's a long *** way to anywhere. Usually over a mountain. Property/rent is insane here too

 

I don’t think so Tim! Small town Indiana gets my vote. And we don’t have nearly as many snakes!

 

Buy a place that you can see renting out as an Airbnb, when the weather turns against you, you rent yours out and move to where it is better, or the carshow is on that you want to see, or the sporting event, or the fishing, or the skiing, etc. The world could be your oyster- this works best if you are retired or independently wealthy. It would be best if all your project cars fit in the onsite shed…

 

Yeah, but July..... Lol. My buddy lives in Oro Valley and comes to stay with us every summer for a month, because you can fry an egg on the roads!

 

I love Oregon, especially the northwest corner. I'd move to Astoria tomorrow if I could. Average high in the summer (as reported by locals) is mid to upper 70s, average low in the Winter is mid 40s. We stayed in Portland in late July through early August and it was in the lower 90s, but there was no humidity (not like here anyway). So you find a shady spot and you're totally comfortable. You've got mountains, forests, beaches, even desert(ish) in the southeast corner. Lot of tweakers there too, but I've found you're going to get those everywhere these days. By and large the people there were pretty cool. Much cooler overall than the mid-Atlantic where I live now. YMMV of course, but I dig the hell out of the PNW.

 

I think you missed the point of his post, which is easy to do if you are not very familiar with Arizona. Oro Valley is at 2500 ft, like Tucson, so it gets really damn hot in the summer.

I live in Sierra Vista, at 4700 ft. In July, it starts raining, and is almost always below 100 degrees, and not very humid, and the afternoon storms really cool things off. We get over 100 in June for an average of a week, and the humidity is usually 20% or less at that time, so the heat doesn't bother us very much.

If you carefully pick the town in AZ you can end up between 4000-6000 ft elevation, and it's a nice compromise between too hot and too cold. We do get all the seasons, but the extremes are not as extreme as either being in Phoenix (1000 ft elevation and really hot) or Flagstaff (7000 ft and really cold in winter).

Still I recommended Tennessee.

 

When these are posted, I try to reference
https://www.city-data.com/
The page for each place will have statistics for the weather, the people, a basic economy look and the community.
There are forums, too if you want to interact with the locals.

In your case, go to https://www.city-data.com/city/Las-Vegas-Nevada.html
and compare it to your own experience of the place. Then try other areas and compare them to what is important to you.

 

you have more free time than me I think....

 

YeH, I don't know much about AZ, I figured you may respond about elevation and cooler temps. When I was in Oro it was near 80 and still snow on the lemon....

 

I do have more time. But a move that's more than across town is a big decision.
Depending on what is important, you can usually cross wide swaths of area off the list.

The coastal NW tends to be very wet. The SW inland tends to be very dry. The upper quarter to third tends to be very cold in winter. The SE tends to be very humid.
There are other trends which are more personal that will be positives or negatives.
These are fairly easy to compare when looking at these pages.

 

Damn Son, I would be moving, I love Georgia and a lot of frinds live there but I have never seen so many snakes in one place. HRP

 

You can live with the snakes or you can live where the air hurts your face. Choice is up to you.

 

I moved to southwest Oregon last year from the east coast. Love it. Warm sunny beautiful dry days in the spring, summer and fall, yeah some rain in the winter, but it never gets too hot in the summer and never gets too cold in the winter and no snow. Beautiful scenic drives, trees, mountains, and great fishing. Not much work though.

 

Went through there last summer to a friends wedding and stayed in Lebanon.

I'm going to be in the same boat soon. I've focused on eastern or south eastern Idaho, I know they don't want to hear another Californian is thinking of moving there. I want colder summers, some snow in winter, little natural disasters (Tornadoes, humidity or hurricanes...), open area for a small house and larger shop. Close to town but not in town, nice, quite, peaceful area with reasonable housing, water and power. Without getting into politics, Boise (and surrounding areas) has too many people from this state and so does Tennessee (certain areas).

 

Why not move to the Mt. Charleston area? 30 minutes out of Vegas.