Daniel89 wrote:
I cannot understand why Americans choose to live in parts of America that have terrible winters, when they could live in a warm state like Florida or Hawaii? Do any of you live in somewhere like Chicago, Seattle or New Jersey etc? If so why not move?
I've lived everywhere from Phoenix, Arizona to Bismarck, North Dakota... just about as extreme as you can get. Honestly I much preferred North Dakota... I've always said "you can always put on more clothes, but you can't always take off more clothes"... it is much easier to warm up than cool off.
But there are SCORES of reasons to live in different places...
A: The most "perfect climate" places to live (San Diego, Hawaii) are prohibitively expensive for most people to live.
B: Because of their "perfect climate" they are generally densely populated in addition to being expensive, crowds are not universally appreciated.
C: That population density tends to wipe out a lot of nature.
D: Warm is not universally appreciated.
E: Warm wet climates mean humidity, humidity is not universally appreciated.
Eb: Humidity tends to increase insect life, bugs are not universally appreciated.
F: Warm dry mean a specific type of natural environment.
For me Seattle is perfect for many reasons, but as for the climate:
- Still as "rugged" as any city in the US can be.
- An abundance of beautiful nature of the type that I prefer (temperate coniferous rainforest).
- The option to get to the ocean or mountains with equal ease.
- Occasionally hot, never "too hot".
- Occasionally "too cold", which is a great excuse to Netflix and Chill under a fuzzy blanket.
- Due to some barely understood biological miracle, we have almost no mosquitos within 15ish miles of Puget Sound (we do have more spiders than should be allowed per capita... but they eat a lot of bugs, so I let it slide)...