Do you miss the seasons or get tired of year round summer? (Tampa: prices, moving to)

[Jrsygrl51]

I hate the heat as well. I miss the 4 seasons that I had in NJ, but not going back, so I deal with the weather here.

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by StreetSmarts

LOL! Good point!

(job)

to me no job would be worth having to live somewhere that I did not like.

Nobody has ever said "I wish I spent more time at the office" on their deathbed. Life is more than a job.
There werent any jobs for you back home?

[Spring Hillian]

Anybody who has the desire to make change in their lives can do so if they want it bad enough.

I am a prime example of that theory.

Originally Posted by BadgerFilms

Being born there? Having family there? Being poor and not being able to move out? Being arrested there? xD I can't stress this enough: FLORIDA HAS NATIVES TOO YA KNOW! Not everyone's from another state or up north. I wasn't able to move until I was 20, then I got a boyfriend out of state and left for school and even though Texas heat is killer, it doesn't last forever at least, and it's dry most days

When I lived in my hometown, Miami, people (locals, not Yankees and snowbirds) loved the days it dropped to the 50s in the winter, especially around Christmas time. Many people down there welcome a change from the sameness. Sure you still got wimps which put on sweaters when it's room temperature outside lol but most of us enjoyed the cold fronts while they lasted. I know that I loved being able to see my breath, which actually doesn't happen here no matter how cold it is, unless it happens to be snowing or raining in the 40s. In Miami it's so humid it happens in the low 60s.

[StreetSmarts]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

to me no job would be worth having to live somewhere that I did not like.

Nobody has ever said "I wish I spent more time at the office" on their deathbed. Life is more than a job.
There werent any jobs for you back home?

I like FL, I just like to pick on it. Its rather easy. LOL.

[engineman]

We have 4 seasons, there is Snowbird season, Spring break, Beach season and Football season. We don't need no stinking cold weather.

[The Villages Guy]

Originally Posted by engineman

We have 4 seasons, there is Snowbird season, Spring break, Beach season and Football season. We don't need no stinking cold weather.

LOL!

[Spring Hillian]

Originally Posted by StreetSmarts

I like FL, I just like to pick on it. Its rather easy. LOL.

If that is what trips your trigger .... carry on.

[freitag0204]

I left Tampa in 2000 when I got married and moved to Missouri. Heat? Humidity? Florida has NOTHING on the St. Louis area!!!! The humidity here arrives in May and stays till October without the benefit of afternoon rain showers to cool off. It's like walking around with a wet blanket on all the time. 85 by 9am isn't unusual. Today it it's 99 with a heat index of 118. 58% humidity. Dripping soaking wet within 2 minutes of walking outside.

By early August the grass is brown and everything that isn't watered daily cooks. This is worse than Florida. It's more like Hell. Then, in the winter, we have weeks where the temp isn't more than 12 or so, and the wind will blow you right off the map.

Next week we're moving to New Port Richey. I've had it in the Midwest. At least in Michigan we had reasonable seasons. Here you're either freezing or melting....I hate it here. Thank God hubby's retiring!!! I'll take Florida's temperate weather with occasional temper tantrums any day.

[Spring Hillian]

A lot of people in FL dont know what the weather is like in other places. They just complain about FL weather, mostly summer.

Originally Posted by freitag0204

I left Tampa in 2000 when I got married and moved to Missouri. Heat? Humidity? Florida has NOTHING on the St. Louis area!!!! The humidity here arrives in May and stays till October without the benefit of afternoon rain showers to cool off. It's like walking around with a wet blanket on all the time. 85 by 9am isn't unusual. Today it it's 99 with a heat index of 118. 58% humidity. Dripping soaking wet within 2 minutes of walking outside.

By early August the grass is brown and everything that isn't watered daily cooks. This is worse than Florida. It's more like Hell. Then, in the winter, we have weeks where the temp isn't more than 12 or so, and the wind will blow you right off the map.

Next week we're moving to New Port Richey. I've had it in the Midwest. At least in Michigan we had reasonable seasons. Here you're either freezing or melting....I hate it here. Thank God hubby's retiring!!! I'll take Florida's temperate weather with occasional temper tantrums any day.

[Soup Not See]

Originally Posted by freitag0204

I left Tampa in 2000 when I got married and moved to Missouri. Heat? Humidity? Florida has NOTHING on the St. Louis area!!!! The humidity here arrives in May and stays till October without the benefit of afternoon rain showers to cool off. It's like walking around with a wet blanket on all the time. 85 by 9am isn't unusual. Today it it's 99 with a heat index of 118. 58% humidity. Dripping soaking wet within 2 minutes of walking outside.

By early August the grass is brown and everything that isn't watered daily cooks. This is worse than Florida. It's more like Hell. Then, in the winter, we have weeks where the temp isn't more than 12 or so, and the wind will blow you right off the map.

Next week we're moving to New Port Richey. I've had it in the Midwest. At least in Michigan we had reasonable seasons. Here you're either freezing or melting....I hate it here. Thank God hubby's retiring!!! I'll take Florida's temperate weather with occasional temper tantrums any day.

Yep, looks unbearable ...

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