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Yesterday we were at 85. Today in the 70s. It's supposed to snow tonight. My bones and joints are very, very cranky.
Anybody else dealing with this?
piratefish08
(3,133 posts)anti-alec
(420 posts)is that you feel so comfortable in any weather....
I love being in Colorado.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)brown, bushes wither, newly planted trees dry up. It's hell. Literally.
I really should move. But I can't drive in ice and snow, so where can I go? Is there a place that isn't scalding hot, but doesn't get much snow/ice?
gateley
(62,683 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The upshot of the program is that only the wealthy can afford to live anywhere decent. The real estate market has locked out middle class people.
gateley
(62,683 posts)When there's a news article like "Britney Spears just put her $4 Million house on the market" - I'm thinking wow, that's pretty cheap! There are homes around me that are listed for over a million dollars, and this isn't what would be considered an upper-class neighborhood by any means. My street doesn't even have sidewalks!
There are homes quite a few homes listed for $10, $12, $19 Million, although they're in the tonier enclaves, but just the same!
The uber expensive homes fly off the shelves -- no lack of money here, apparently, but we normal people would be hard pressed to find something that would be considered fair and reasonable in other parts of the country. When I hear of home prices elsewhere I'm amazed at what you can get for "so little".
I live with my brother and his wife and they're renting this house, so I'm lucky. If I were looking to buy, well, I couldn't even entertain the thought.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Plenty of locations with temperate weather. Stay away from the beach towns and the cities, and there's still reasonable housing available.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)I'm in the north but I'm in the Capitol.
grasswire
(50,130 posts).....but I know that there is some very comfortable living in some communities and the weather is a great deal better than Texas.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I already checked into CA years ago. I don't see how anyone can afford to live there, unless they worked there for years getting high wages.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Sure, all the cities are still a mess.
Perhaps some Californians will weigh in.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Warm and humid in the summer but high enough in the mountains so it's not stifling hot, they get some snow but not that much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina#Climate
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)I don't have the $$$ to replace now. And my husband keeps turning it on due to some fantasy that if he can hear the fan running it is cooling he house.
Keep warm.
lob1
(3,820 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)That sounds miserable.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)March was the hottest on record. I grew up here, and well remember still wearing snowsuits in March and April.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)So not looking forward to May June July August September.......
It's Satan called, he wants his weather back , deep in the heart of Texas.
librechik
(30,676 posts)squish
SATIRical
(261 posts)Down here in the Springs