We had that weather on Sat, Sun, and Monday, it is now 85 and humid.......this too shall pass.

I <3 AZ

Always have.

:)

On my list to consider. One nice thing about my place now is I can shoot guns right off my back porch if I want (I've done it for yuks and to sight in a new rifle a few months ago). Could probably do that in AZ - in CA I'd be tazed or SWAT-teamed from a phalanx of black helicopters!

I don't think I could do a Southwestern State - too hot. The hottest I have lived in was the San Fernando Valley. It was horrible during the 6-8 weeks when it would climb over 100. I had to get up at 5 am on the weekends just to get a bike ride in. My dogs hated it, hunting quail in the high desert was useless after 9 am, even in January etc.

Also, the gravel gets to me. That's what you have a lot in places like Phoenix and Albuquerque. Gravel and gravel ... :)

I like the Bay Area. It gets warm enough but you can always exercise and be out and run the dogs ... the north coast north of Bodega Bay is beautiful too on a sunny day.

G

Ten four on that good buddy!

When I was doing the long distant relationship thing with my wife at one point I was "fark this! I'm selling the house and moving to Portland!!!" (Love will do that to you)
The weather would have killed me and fortunately my wife was the voice of reason "uh, you are going to give up the security of a state job and your pension? I don't think so!"

While it is difficult to go counter this sage advice there is always an exception to the rule... try that in Antarctica and let me know how it works. ;):D

I don't think I could live in AZ for the heat and gravel. I have thought about Florida down in the West Palm Beach area where my BIL lives, but there again, heat and humidity. I really think Colorado would be my best choice in a cabin by a mountain lake. I really enjoy the changing of the seasons and actually look forward to each one, it's just that dark, grey, cold, windy days of Winter in NW Ohio seem to drag on forever.

I am looking at my paid off house in Ohio as a home base for future travelings to avoid said Winter weather, and the prospect of being somewhat nomadic in a small motorhome, or TT is really appealing......10 years to retirement.

The weather is changing. Look up weather trends in the PacNW. Portland is distinctly less cold, gray, and rainy than it was even eight years ago when I moved here. It's not Scottsdale, of course.

In ten or twenty years, I think much of the South and Southwest will be pretty hard to tolerate.

Idk about that John. Texas and OK are having record flooding, we had rain today for the first time in 126 years on June 5th. Rained pretty damn hard too. I think the patterns are shifting but maybe not for the worse.

LOL. Weather is cyclical, and the cycles are years. In KS we just came out of several years of severe drought, most of the state is officially caught up on rain. It will probably be like this for a while, then dry out again for a few years. Our summers tend to be either cool and rainy or hot and dry. This is how weather works, no matter what Algore tries to tell you.

Plenty of data for Southwest weather here:

http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/technical_reports/NOAA_NESDIS_Tech_Report_142-5-Climate_of_the_Southwest_U.S.pdf

"Gold is where you find it"

My sister moved from California 30 yrs ago and I finally went out and spent a week with
her on her farm in S. Missouri two weeks ago.
To her and her husband, they are in paradise.
I can see why this time of year.

I think a lot of us in Calif. dream of moving away to a more simple life.
Missouri is absolutely beautiful this time of year. Winter...? I will have to go back in
Feb.

I can honestly say the whole week I was visiting and driving around the county in my
rental.... I saw not one Porsche. Can't throw bails of hay in a Porsche, I guess.

I know it is your attitude, not your aptitude that determines your altitude in life.

Calif. is getting more restrictive and scary as the years go by.

My brother-in-law and I walked out in a wooded area on his property and just started
plinking away with the rifles. No paranoia, just fun.

I love the outdoors so Los Angeles is the perfect place for me ;)

I have been trying to escape the big city my whole life... but something always comes up to stop me... family, a job, a woman...

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And God bless you folks who live in +100 and -40 temps... me? Not so much.
At my age I think I have one move move in me and mild temps are the top of the list.

This is why I live in rural Ohio, any day of the year, I can shoot guns, or burn a brush pile or piss into the wind with no interruption.

I don't see many Porsches either, but I did pick up 350 bales of hay in my truck and wagon for our 4 horses and 2 donkeys on Thursday and Friday (2 loads) totaling over 26,000 lbs.