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I thought I moved from Michigan to a warmer state, Tennessee. But not for the next 4 nights. 0 tonight, 48 right now. High of 13 low of 7 for tomorrow. North west corner of the state. We love it here, at least we don't get much snow. If we do it's usually gone within a day or two. Plenty of water where I'm at. Lots of good fishing/boating, horse and atv trails too. Cumberland river, Tennessee River, Lake Barkley, Kentucky lake and several reservoirs. This has been an unusual year for here.
Geo-TH,In
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I've given a lot of thought about moving.
Travel some and decided, there is no place like HOME.
Arizona is warm but way too dry. Single digit humidity gives me nose bleeds.
Florida and some coastal areas are too Humid and my sinuses can't tolerate mold and mildew.
I don't want to live with wildfires, earthquakes, or hurricanes.
A tornado is small and is over very quickly.
I have basements too.
I can't see myself living 1000 miles from my children and grandchildren at Christmas.
No place like Home, especially during the holidays.
Travel some and decided, there is no place like HOME.
Arizona is warm but way too dry. Single digit humidity gives me nose bleeds.
Florida and some coastal areas are too Humid and my sinuses can't tolerate mold and mildew.
I don't want to live with wildfires, earthquakes, or hurricanes.
A tornado is small and is over very quickly.
I have basements too.
I can't see myself living 1000 miles from my children and grandchildren at Christmas.
No place like Home, especially during the holidays.
BarnyardEngineering
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- Rochester, NY
The only way to truly get away from it is to swap hemispheres every 6 months.
When I win the lottery I'm buying a place in Australia or New Zealand, and stay there from October 15th to April 1st.
When I win the lottery I'm buying a place in Australia or New Zealand, and stay there from October 15th to April 1st.
I'm 65, and lived most of my life in western NY, plenty of cold and snow. As a young man I spent about 7 years in So Cal and Texas.
I found I preferred the East, the change of seasons, and the greenery. I recently bought a 33 acre hunk of forested hills, with a hundred year old house and a 30x30 pole barn, all badly in need of rehab, in Southwest NY, Allegany Mountains.
Snow and cold isn't so bad when you aren't forced to go out in it
I found I preferred the East, the change of seasons, and the greenery. I recently bought a 33 acre hunk of forested hills, with a hundred year old house and a 30x30 pole barn, all badly in need of rehab, in Southwest NY, Allegany Mountains.
Snow and cold isn't so bad when you aren't forced to go out in it
Tom in TN
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- Location
- Southern Middle Tennessee
I moved from Rochester, MN to Miami, FL in 1974. I loved it, but my family missed the changing seasons, so we moved to Atlanta in 1978. I ended up in Tennessee in 1981 and have been here, more or less, since. I love heat and hate cold. It's hot in the summer in Tennessee (sometimes near or slightly over 100 degrees). I can handle that, but it's supposed to be in the low single digits at night for each of the next five nights. I hate that.
I can't, but if I could, I'd move back to Miami tomorrow.
Tom in TN
I can't, but if I could, I'd move back to Miami tomorrow.
Tom in TN
Bud Sather in MT
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- Glasgow, Mt
Moved from way northern Mt to central Mt. Water lines only 5 feet deep in Fairfield. This morning -30 without wind chill factor. Don't plan moving any time soon. That is what a furnace is for.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Everyone that lives where it gets cold and snowy , thinks how wonderful it would be to live in th south where the harsh winter weather never comes. I say go spend some time there in the summer months, and see how hot it is. Grass is always greener so the saying goes. If I could have my choice of which state to live in, Id probably go west to Oregon or north California. Never too hot in the summer months cause the Pacific Ocean moderates the temperature, and rarely gets below freezing in the winter months, sounds great to me.
wilson ind
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you will burn in forest fires
Russ from MN
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- Location
- Bemidji MN
We have been spending our winters in Arizona for 10 years now and love it! But in the end of March when it starts getting up to 90 we head N again. We grew up in the Baudette/ International Falls area, so we know what winter is! If I spent the winter in MN I would ice fish, cross country ski, and cut wood.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Ya I guess every place has some kinda short coming.
Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
One of our offspring is in NC. That's as far south as I need to go to enjoy a break from winter. I'd really like to spend January and February there. I have a friend in Maryland, and that's good too. Going to visit an old high school buddy in Kentucky this winter. I was in NC one July, and thought I was going to melt! Since I expect to continue my little crop farm here in central NY, where summers are perfect, I could go south for a couple of months and have the best of both worlds.
bmack95hd
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- Location
- Cahone, Colorado
We moved from northern AZ to SW Colorado. Very little difference between the two locations. Great summers but still have to deal with some snow come winter.
Blackhole49
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- Location
- White Lake MI
I've been all over the south: FL, TX, NM, AZ and CA. Nice to visit, but wouldn't live in any of them. I retired at 58 11 years ago and spent the first 10 years going to FL for Jan., Feb., and March (that was always my retirement dream). Don't really mind the snow and cold (SE MI) so I stopped doing that last year. Found out how much I missed going out in the shop to piddle. Don't miss it at all. Nothing more comfortable than home and no way do I want the headache of 2 of them.
We were planning to move to southern Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky or Tennessee 20 years ago but it just didn't materialize. We made several trips down looking at places and talking to cattle guys down there. At the time, I didn't think it was possible to make a living up here in the cow/calf business. The only folks I ever knew here to do it got most of their income off the farm, so I just assumed. I learned how it was done down there and brought those ideas up here and we've done way better than I ever thought we could.
I sure won't defend our cold weather, but just like the heat down there is a different kind of heat, the cold they get is a different kind of cold. One thing I learned quick was that you need a tractor with a cab for winter feeding down there because of the freezing rain and high humidity even in the winter. I've got two tractors with cabs, sure, but the only use they see in the winter is for hauling manure or hauling hay home from fence rows in deep snow. It's not that big of a deal feeding round bales or filling feed bunks with an open tractor here. It's like the Scandinavians say, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
I sure won't defend our cold weather, but just like the heat down there is a different kind of heat, the cold they get is a different kind of cold. One thing I learned quick was that you need a tractor with a cab for winter feeding down there because of the freezing rain and high humidity even in the winter. I've got two tractors with cabs, sure, but the only use they see in the winter is for hauling manure or hauling hay home from fence rows in deep snow. It's not that big of a deal feeding round bales or filling feed bunks with an open tractor here. It's like the Scandinavians say, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
Being a snow bird gives one of the better weather patterns to live in: live in the North most of the year, move to the South around New Years (maybe move earlier at Thanksgiving or Halloween if no family is close by anymore) and return around Easter.
There are always pros and cons to living in any one location year round.
There are always pros and cons to living in any one location year round.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Sounds like youre having a cool spell, let us know what the temperature is again in a week or two. We should be down around Zero Fahrenheit, our usual January temperatures
RobCons
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- Location
- Central Alabama
We have tornadoes, hurricanes, and heat in Alabama but I see y'alls pictures plowing snow and just cant imagine living in those conditions. Guess its what we get used to. For this cold snap its Thursday right before lunch and my time outdoors will be minimal until next week.
john in la
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The question is why do you want to move??
If winter is so bad in MN why didnt you move south when you were 20 years old??
Most snow birds only come to the south for winter. They to soft to stay here all summer.
But I have one favor to ask. If you do move to the south. Dont come down here and try to tell us how you did things back home
If winter is so bad in MN why didnt you move south when you were 20 years old??
Most snow birds only come to the south for winter. They to soft to stay here all summer.
But I have one favor to ask. If you do move to the south. Dont come down here and try to tell us how you did things back home
SweetFeet
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John in la,
Some of us stayed up north because we did not mind it so much back when we were in our 20's... back then, making it to work in a blizzard was kind of a thrill and a challenge to overcome. But over time, many of us come to dislike winters more and more and MORE. LOL
Some of us stayed up north because we did not mind it so much back when we were in our 20's... back then, making it to work in a blizzard was kind of a thrill and a challenge to overcome. But over time, many of us come to dislike winters more and more and MORE. LOL
You can get used to almost weather area you want to live in. In the Summers, I really like Arizona because of 2 percent humidity. Texas summers were cooler by ~20F but, with high humidity are pretty miserable for me personally.
"Dry" snow isn't too bad in my experience. The main thing I dislike is the salt on the roads or the "wet" snow in the South.
Being retired, I can generally just stay home when bad weather rolls in. Just like during <insert the name of the p a n d e m i c>, I just lock the pasture gate and stay home. Being on a farm, I can stay home with the gate locked ~90days with bill pay for the electric bill.
Being in a position to NOT be in public when conditions warrant is nice. With kids in school or a working a 9-5 job, that is an unknown luxury to most people.
Super H Mike
Member
Correct, and an older person has the cold go through them much harder. Plowing snow was fun,the first 200 times I did it...
Super H Mike
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Tennessee sounds good to me about this time of year. MN from May - Oct is sure nice though.
john in la
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SweetFeet
Lets be honest for a minute. Jobs pay schools are all better in the north. Then when those things dont matter anymore its time to move south.
But then again most dont move to the real south. That would include La Miss Ala and Ga. Some might say eastern SC could be added to the list. Most go to Fla Tx Az and Tenn and aint none of them the real south.
Lets be honest for a minute. Jobs pay schools are all better in the north. Then when those things dont matter anymore its time to move south.
But then again most dont move to the real south. That would include La Miss Ala and Ga. Some might say eastern SC could be added to the list. Most go to Fla Tx Az and Tenn and aint none of them the real south.
gene bender
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yes the first thing is to ask is how do you do it here
John never so a truer statement. For what ever the reason economy weather or what ever our part of tennessee is just seeing a massive influx of folks from other parts of this country. Just had one from California, throwing a fit the other night at city council meeting. seems she moved to a dead end road (nothing unusual here) and here neighbor had a birthday party, too many cars and she had trouble getting buy in the narrow road. We needed regulations to prevent such parking on narrow roads. They never cease to amaze me first thing they want to do when they get here is go to trying to change things.
Yes, schools in the South suck, but so do those in the North. I grew up in a northern state known for good schools and they were crap even 40 years ago and they have not improved since then.
Move to the south and home school your kids so they actually get an education, not an indoctrination. Beyond cost, most private schools aren't an option for us either as most are far left or far right and we're far center.
MARK ROBKE
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Or maybe run into Bigfoot! LOL! Mark.
john in la
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The south is a culture a way of life. You have the cowboy south Tx. You have the transplant south Fla. You have the Appalachian south Tn Ky Va NC and western SC. And you got the Deep South or the real south La Ms Ala Ga. No body claims Ark so they stuck out there on their own.
Rollag, MN for the Western Minnesota Thresherman Show is an awesome place to be! I loved it there this past Labor Day!Tennessee and the surrounding areas (Alabama, Georgia, ...) get a lot of snow which generally melts pretty fast to create a real mess, at least when I lived in the Huntsville, AL and Atlanta, GA areas.
Alabama tornadoes were a real problem for me as well. I always thought Oklahoma was bad until I moved there. In 2 1/2 years, I experienced two F-4 and an F-5 plus so many lesser tornadoes, I lost count! Literally, 2 F-4 and an F-5 witnessed from my front porch!
I would avoid the coasts as well due to Gulf of Mexico storms blowing in with heavy rains. The middle of Texas is pretty nice but, stay away from the border for obvious reasons. The panhandle of Texas is pretty bad during Winter but, the Oklahoma-Texas border area is generally pretty nice and avoids the brunt of bad weather generally.
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
That is why I like Central Virginia,hot in the Summer but not too hot,cold in the Winter but not too cold.Fall and Spring are great.Lots of Yanks in my county,they mostly calm down after a year or two(LOL)
How about [b:0aecf3aa3e]"take home pay"[/b:0aecf3aa3e]. I turned down a job in New Jersey that paid over twice what I was making at the time because after taxes and cost of living differences, I had less money to spend at the end of the month.
In terms of school quality, that is debatable. There are good and bad schools and school systems everywhere, not just the 'North and South'.
People moving to those areas are moving for quality of life, tax, and personal freedom issues generally. I doubt most of them are moving to be South of the Mason Dixon or to relive Antebellum Confederacy lifestyles. Those I talked to wanted nicer weather, less taxation and generally wanted to get away from HOA's.
Free will is a great thing when you can exercise it!
HAZENMANOR
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May to Nov in western Ny Nov to May in Lafayette alabama,air conditioned sunshine year round lol
caterpillar guy
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I'd love to move. Wife doesn't want to move to far from the kids and now grand kids. I would move from MI to either SD or ID been to both and both can have their share of cold. It's a dry cold and a dry heat which I can live with on both. I've been all over most of both states from Across 90 to up 29 and ever across on 14 and up 81 and down 281 in Sd Id across from WY on 80 or better on 30 to Idaho falls and over to Boise up 55 and 95 to Grangeville and on up to Coure d'lane down 95 through salmon and around by way of 20 from Belleville to IF and over to MT close to Yellowstone. I like MT WY and Just getting to communist for me in ND and MT anymore. WY would be alright too. South is to hot for me after about February and not cool enough till December Been al over the south of any version. NC,SC,
VA,GA,MS,LA,AL,TN,KY,NM,AZ West TX is alrigh up in the panhandle area or west of I 35 north of Waco across. NM is to communist for me and AZ just would be good to visit in the winter for a couple months and Fladstaff has winter in the winter. Ya'll can have that south winter or summer thing.
VA,GA,MS,LA,AL,TN,KY,NM,AZ West TX is alrigh up in the panhandle area or west of I 35 north of Waco across. NM is to communist for me and AZ just would be good to visit in the winter for a couple months and Fladstaff has winter in the winter. Ya'll can have that south winter or summer thing.
James Babcock
Member
Hey, come on down to N. Central Arkansas, only -2F temperature this morning.
We live in Southern Wis for 9 months and Arizona for 3. Leave after Christmas and back at Easter Time. Have done this for 17 years and really enjoy it. We drive back and forth and enjoy seeing the rest of the country as there are many different ways we can take to get there and back. There is no one perfect place, you just have to adjust to what you are comfortable with.
With reasonable social ties, that shouldn't be an issue. Why move if you are just going to "hole up" and be an island all alone in your new environment?
Churches, dinner clubs, fishing, etc. are all typical things someone new to an area probably looked at in their choice. Sure losing your fishing, Church, etc. buddy is bad but, it's not like you are now all alone on the fishing pier, church pew, etc.
This post was edited by sidpost on 12/23/2022 at 10:36 am.
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