Looks like you are in 3 season country, June, July, and Winter. Suffer, or move anywhere. I move for lots of lesser reasons. It's a good life, being a nomad. I'm moving the next time they add one more traffic light in this town!
yeah, definately don't move to the FL panhandle. It's 70 this morning already. I miss those MT winters....NOT
Sheep are for eating, not anything else. (although our Australian friends might have some insight there!)
Move to Cuba...Nice & warm, loads of old cars, good cigars, no knuckle heads in the white house to deal with and thongs all over the place! Of course, there is that slight Castro problem to deal with......
Albuquerque, New Mexico's a nice place if you can land a job working for Sandia Labs, or one of their contractors. (It's still cold in the winter, but we get about 1-3 inches of snow a year on average!) We also have more resturants per capita that any other city in the US! We seem to be a test market for all the big chain resturants as well. And nothings better than New Mexican Green Chili.
Well I was born in Iowa, moved to MO so don't remember much of Iowa. Raised in MO and had snow and all of that stuff. Just went back last week. The Sunday before Christmas it was 2 degrees and the wind was howling about 35 or 40 mph. Nearly 50 years ago I moved to Tampa FL and lived there for 27 years. Made a decent living there. Retired from one job and moved to Tallahassee. Just retired again. I am a "tripple dipper" now. Sucked on the government tit for nearly 48 years. I have traveled all over the country and all places have a purpose and strong points. To those who say there is no car scene in Florida must be kiddin'!! 100 cars at a car show? We just had Turkey Run in Daytona and nearly 5,000 cars were there. Hell there's 25 or 30 every month at Sonic here in little ole Tallahassee. Humidity may be a little high but you don't have to shovel it. And we don't have a state income tax! Someone here badmouthed South Carolina. If I was going to move anywhere it would probably be SC. There are lots of industries there and the weather isn't too bad. Charleston is a great city to visit but for living I think I'd choose Greenville. In my opinion they have about everything I'd need. Close to the mountains, fairly close to the ocean and lots of stuff going on there. I have no idea what the hot rod situation is there. I've spent some time there but only short periods at a time. The Red Bone Alley Cafe in Florence has the best Shrimp and Grits on the planet! Taxes and property is lower than NC. Property is expensive in NC. I could do with Georgia too. Nice places there. Savannah is one of the great cities in the country in my opinion. Atlanta is huge, lots of stuff going on but just not my cup of tea. Love to visit but wouldn't want to live there. I could probably put up with northern Alabama or northern Mississippi too but gotta watch out for dry counties up there. Have no idea if there are "cars" there but there are a bunch of them laying in yards around the houses that would be a bonanza for a builder. I went to a helicopter convention in Phoenix one time and thought I was going to die. It was so friggin' hot I couldn't breathe. It was like havin' your head in an oven. Hell, I'll take the humidity any day. That's why they have swamp coolers out there, just to put a little moisture in the air. A couple of years ago I rode my old Goldwing from FL to CA and from west Texas on I nearly croaked. I went a month too late and this was in mid June!!! It was 107 when I pulled into Tumcumcari NM! I got up at 2:00 am in Kingman AZ and hit the road just so I could get across the desert to Barstow before I got cooked like a roasted hen! All posts on here are somebodys opinion and this is mine ....
Moved to Phoenix, Az in 1978 from Madison, Wi on the way to California (San Diego to be exact). Mom decided to stay here as Colorado was too cold (she was making up her mind where to put down roots in the Dodge van as we traveled west) and California was too crowded (after seeing smalltown Phoenix). Did the stupid thing and moved back to Madison, Wi in 1988 to live with dad for a few years only to find out that I hate shoveling snow and missed Carne Asada and chile's. Moved back to Phoenix in 1992 and haven't looked back. If I could afford it, my first choice would be in the San Diego area or north of it but not L.A. Second choice would be Phoenix, hey already here. Third would be San Antonio or Austin Tx, just not hip to the whole humidity in August type of thing from the Gulf. It is hot from late June to mid September. We know it is hot, no one can fool you it isn't but just don't talk about it and learn to become nocturnal. Some good people here and quite a bit of flakey fake ones as well. I will probably retire to the Tucson area in about fourty years, or thereabouts. Love the climate, but life moves a bit too slow for my tastes currently. Great people down there though, even better weather, but not much industry for anything in comparison to Phoenix. Phoenix ain't easy, we have crime and crappy locations like any metropolitan city, but it is home and has been for most my life. I've seen the deep South, East Coast, all over the Great Lakes Midwest region and West Coast proper and if it wasn't for my want of old cars, I would probably be in the Pacific Northwest, but rain really cuts into outside activities.
Lived in Canada for 22 years, then decided I hated snow and started looking for some place warm to live. Ended up in Cedar Rapids, IA for a year and *really* didn't like winter after that. I've been in Florida now since 96 and love it. I do miss the snow on occasion, but not enough to move back to it. Check out CareerBuilder.com for CNC jobs:
I love my state. I am actually a native to this state and have lived in the Metro PHX area almost all of it. Naturally I would welcome just about anyone to move here. http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS253US253&q=Arizona%20landmarks&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
I saw on TV yesterday a man being interviewed from Cali. He said the Cali's four seasons are Earthquakes, fire, mudslides, and drought.
How do you handle the 118 plus days in June July and August? I worked a summer over there a few years back and when it gets up into that range it is HOT!
Forget South Dakota too. It was -25 in Aberdeen, -15 in Brookings and only -5 in Sioux Falls yesterday evening.
I'm with Bob Hindman, Tulsa is a great place. If you're not a total asshole, Bob could probably hook you up with some folks where you could get a good job. Bob's a pretty jamb up fabricator his own damn self. The comment about backwoods bible thumpers is interesting. Tulsans were some of the best folks I ever worked around and I was there 30 years. Everyone comes off as a backwoods bible thumper, if you are rude and crude and people feel they need to corrrect you all of the time; not saying that was the case in anyone's else's experience, I'm just sayin'... What do you think Bob, are you hassled by backwoods bible thumpers all the time? You've been there longer than I was.
Hey YOOPER! My old work buddy retired and moved back to da yooperland. He loves his winter camp, but now he,s back for awhile to thaw out and visit his Ca. sweetie. ya its too cold to be up der right now.
ya dago, is getting too crowded but I can,t find a better climate, and the orange county chicks are just reg Calif girls.
Nothing to it. No different than dealing with exteme cold, you just limit your exposure. I imagine dealing with 118 is easier than 30 below, no special gear is needed other than shade and a cool drink.
Despite what you saw watching the Rose Parade/Bowl Game, California is not the place to move to. It's a hoax perpetrated by Hollywood to get people out here.
I sure want to say THANKS for all the responses and help so far. If things fall in place soon, I'll have alot of ideas. As some Yoopers say - Holy Wah!
"I imagine dealing with 118 is easier than 30 below, no special gear is needed other than shade and a cool drink. " I dunno, you can always put more clothes on, but if you take too many off, the applause can be deafening or at least that's been my humble experience !!
It is supposed to be 60 tomorrow, and 70 this weekend. I think I am going to catch a little fun surf. Wil in Wilmington, NC right now. www.sakowskimotors.com
yes i agree we hay way too many yankees that come here decide that they like it. the move here and suddenly decide they want to change things to be like where they came from! LOL OLdWolf
Don't be telling folks that . The place is infested with folks from up north. I went to a cruise-in up there and except for HotRod Primer, I didn't talk to anyone that had been living here for more than 5 years. Place is getting too crowded. Look at the mess they made up in North Carolina. That place has become is a penile extension of New York . Taxes, taxes and more taxes.
That was me . Don't even consider SC. I've been here near Greenville for 31 years and hate it. Some folks have been telling you lies about this place. My wife, of 28 years, is from here and doesn't want to move to where I'm originally from in upstate New York . She doesn't like the idea of paying high property taxes, high sales tax, shoveling snow, pounding on rusted out cars, thawing out frozen pipes, having 3 months of decent weather, killing mosquitos that carry plastic bags, payin' high fuel prices, drivin' on toll roads & pot holed highways, having friends with a negative attitudes toward life, looking for high priced real estate, not having a job, etc., etc. . I told her ya' can't have everything . I explained they have super oval track DIRT Modified racing and great pizza shops on every corner . That didn't convince her , so I'm stuck here and it really sucks .
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