[Talewinds]

Have you been to all of the places on your list?

I'm less than a week from returning from Hawaii. Oaho: Maui and North Shore, Hawaii: Hilo and Kona, Kauai...
It's the first warm climate I've ever visited in the dead of the midwestern winter that I was almost instantly certain that I NEVER EVER wanted to live.
Loved the place, beautiful, but much of the drawbacks presented by other posters in your previous thread were immediately obvious, but I'll concede, Hilo was nice because of the sparse population and RELATIVELY few cars!!!

I understand very keenly your desire for warmer climates, especially now, but it's amazing how perspectives differ, I mean, Savannah??? Shreveport???
You must really be aching to escape the cold.

I'm really not being critical, on the contrary I'd actually like to understand more about what interests you in the southeast U.S., and why you WOULDN'T consider California....