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Why I don't move south

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nybadlybent

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For many years I have contemplated moving south and each year decide to stay here in the polar bear country.
First I should let it be known that I have been down south, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and others during the winter and found it to be very enjoyable. My reasons for staying here in the ice box has little to do with winter weather but more to do with timing. You see when it is summer here it is way to nice to move away and in the winter I am to poor to relocate south.

So I believe I am stuck here until death moves me away. Good luck to all you good folks in the warmer climes and do not worry about me. I have lots of company here in the frigid wasteland.
 
In those vintage movies from the 1940's -1950's Pa Kettle used to say about the leaking roof on his house/shack: "...when it's raining I can't fix it. When it's not raining then I do not need it fixed..."
 
NW Al. Currently at 12 with forecasted high today of 17. 4 tonight and then in the 20's for tomorrow. back to 40+ after that. spent a winter in glasglow, ky. in 71. closest to living in the north for me.
 
I've been in that dilemma for years now. Had serious plans to move 15 years or so ago and just didn't get around to it. Gonna get too old to lift the furniture on a truck I'm afraid.
 
One thing I really miss about the South. GRITS.
One thing I really hate about the South. CNATS.
Also, now that I think about it. CHIGGERS

My friends down there say: "Y'all don't have grits up there?" Well, sort of. There's a box of "Instant Grits" on the shelf in the grocery store that's been there since the store opened.
Oh, by the way, minus 18 F here this morning. What's even better is it's minus 19.7 F in Moscow-Madison. I don't here a whimper about "global warming" from those flakes this morning.
 
We gave up on the north country and moved to AZ 29 years ago. We really hated the heat the first summer we spent here, but got used to it in another year.

AZ is not for everyone, but it has been good for us and especially for my health.
 
I put in three years of my life at Yuma Proving Ground. It was a lot of fun but I will never go back except for an occasional visit on Google Earth. I never "got used to" the heat of summer. January was great!. (;>))
 
I sure enjoy being a snow bird at least for a little while each winter. Since 1996 I've manage to get away for at least a week. Several years it was the World Ag Expo in Tulare. 2010 and 2012 it was over a month in Southern Ca. and then the past two years it has been NE Texas. We will be leaving for Southern Ca before the first of Febuary.
I've had enough Colorado winter.
 
Bill,you gonna be at Varner's sale? Call,We should meet.Will you be back for the Western sale? Steve
 
Lived in Texas all my life. This morning it was 14F, wind chill near 0. I'm ready to go further south!

"Oh, it's hot in Texas. Bout as hot as it can get. Mesquite trees and cactus tryin' hard not to sweat"
line from a song by Max Stalling

Bring it ON!!! My thermostat doesn't even open till it hits 100!
 
spent 57 years here i guess im used to it by now .and why dont they have a sunshine factor my critters are lined up on the east side of the barn sunning themselves every once in a while they turn and get the other side .18 below mutt kept the truck warm while i did chores 1 water froze a little and now who said that about dumb dog
 
Sometime I am envious of you all talking about plowing snow. I mowed my yard yesterday and plowed the garden. Snow plowing sounds like a lot more fun.
 
Dave,
Fly on up for a few days. I plowed last night had 12-16" of snow not counting drifting. Some drifts were 3 feet.

Today calling for 0 to minus 10F, with a windchill in the -30F range. With the wind I will be plowing open the driveway again today. I will keep the tractor warm and waiting inside a 45F shop for you!!

By the time I finished last night at 11pm, I had icicles growing off my goatee from the blowing snow. It stings enough I wear safety glasses so I can see going into the wind.

Everything here in Mid Michigan is shut down for the next day or two due to the winter storm.

Rick
 
Remember what Samuel Clemmons said "the coldest winter I have ever spent was a Summer in San Fransisco."
I lived in the California Valley for my first half of my life and the fog is the coldest thing I have ever lived in. Sometimes it was so thick that you have to get out to see if your hood ornament was still on the car.
Walt
 
In the Mississippi River Valley,10 miles North
of Lacrosse Wisconsin: My Thermometer said -22
at 9 A.M. It"s supposed to be a high today of -12,
according to the weather guessers!
 
I have lived in NW Alabama all my life. I have been told that 15 degrees here, feels much colder then the same temperature up far north.
Some say its because it is a "damp cold".
 
Whenever we set up a schedule for going to different districts for equipment meetings, the #1 rule was: "Never schedule meetings in Yuma in August". We always went north for meetings in the summer.
 
I was up in Montana, just passing through, in the summer, talking to one of the locals about how cold it gets there.

He said he spent a year in Houston Tx when he was in his 20's, working an oil rig in the Gulf...
Said that was the hottest and coldest he'd ever been.

I agreed about the hottest, but the coldest?

He said a freak cold spell made it down, got into the low 30's with a few flurries. Thought he was going to DIE!

If you've never been to Houston, it's close to 100% humidity, year round.
 
I could move to Florida, but you nailed it. I have lots of friends and family here in the frigid north.
 
You don't want to move to Florida it's infested with Yankees. Here in Charleston SC it's suppose to be 16 degrees tonight.
Ron
 
I cant move south till the grand kids move south, or it will be by myself :) I have one grandson that is moving to Montana (not the brightest bulb in the drawer)
 
I live 20 miles from Glasgow Ky. About 2 degrees here this morning. You get nineties in the summer and some of this in the winter. Keeps things interesting.
 
I hear you. Most of my family is here. My son just started farming on our family farm last fall. He's the 6 generation on this property. Don't want to leave the grandkids. Can't afford to relocate anyway. Sure wish I'd have had some indication of how business hostile N.Y. was going to become 40 years ago before I started a family.
 
Don't want to miss winter--snow, cold, and all. The whole world slows down and I get all those inside jobs done. But I sure hate mud! That's why I go south in March, come home in April when things are drying out.
 
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