I live in Quebec Canada, I've seen 50 winters and i can not get used to it, I hate the cold, the snow, I hate to be forced bylaw to have snow tires on my car for the winter, I hate the cost of Hydro during the winter.
I am right here shoveling snow and I have a mortgage to pay however my wife and I have a fully paid house in Miami where her mom lives.
I am seriously thinking of selling everything here and moving to Miami or Palm Beach.
Any comments? good or bad, I am building a list of pros and cons that will help in this decision.
Mike
Another good thing about Florida, is that it does rain constantly for days. Usually about an hour, once or twice a day, and really not that often.
I would want to be in Florida but.......
This one got me, Wha.
Please explain to this mid westerner.
Edit: I'm sure it's just a be there and know thing
I grew up in Oregon (northwestern United States), and it rained, it rain for days, you could easily see where the bible comes up with '...40 days and 40 nights...', but here in Florida it only rains non-stop like that when we have a major storm, and even then its only a day or two, and we usually get some breaks in the down pour. Might have been that Oregon has a lot of mountains, but from what I've seen of Canada, it's got a lot of the same trees and plant life, so likely gets a lot of rain as well.
Funny how people get sick of their climate.
I live in "Sunny" South Africa, but I cannot handle the heat. If I had my way I’d move to Vancouver tomorrow. I know it rains a lot there, but then again, here in the Gauteng Province where I live, we’ve had about 300mm rain each month for the last three months.
If you’re cold, you put on a jacket, still cold, put on another.
If you’re hot, you can only strip down to your skin, but believe me, it STILL stays HOT
It's not about how cold it gets, it is everything around it.
A typical winter day here would be like this:
I get up at 6:30AM, it is pitch dark outside, listen to the traffic news to figure out which road I will take to drive to work. I go outside to start the car (hoping it will start), scrape the ice off the windshield, side and rear windows, if we had a snow fall I have to shovel the snow bank for the car to go out of the driveway, (a 6 inches of snow fall makes a 2 feet high snow bank) come back inside while the car warms up, 15 minutes later head for work knowing it will take between 1 to 2 hours and with the stress I might end up in the ditch due to slippery roads although I had to spend $800 for snow tires. after a day's work I go through the same thing over, get home and shovel the rest of the snow, have a late supper and stress out thinking about the next winter day.
Did I miss anything?
Sounds like the choice is simple to make.
Mike
Well in Miami Florida you'll be seeking the cool indoors during summer and seeking the indoors all year long from lawless Cuban criminals that plague that city's heightened crime rate. I visited Miami once... just long enough to board a pleasure cruise ship, return days later and quickly board a jet home.
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