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Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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21ºC for us non-Americans. That would be a pleasant year's worth of weather for me, given that the winter temperature in my Canadian city can reach -35ºC in the deepest part of winter.

Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.

70/21 is cold?! Damn. That's pretty much the top end of my comfort zone. I'd trade this humid, oppressive southeastern US summer every day of the week for that.

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You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

Wow, I had no idea about that. TIL. I always thought all of Mexico was very hot year round.

Try a summer in Hermosillo https://www.google.es/?ion=1&espv=2#q=hermosillo%20weather

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I live in LA (somewhat new, but I have been in CA for years), and I do not miss seasons at all. It has been many years since I have seen snow, and I plan to keep it that way. I cannot recall the last time I was in below freezing weather. I am an avid cyclist, and it is amazing to bike year round. My tan lines are very prominent from the amount of cycling I do in sunny weather.

+1. I absolutely do not miss seasons in Southern California. On the contrary, I'm much happier when I (almost) constantly have great weather.

Illinois transplant to CA, casting another vote for "I don't miss the seasons at all." After 5 years in CA, I moved to PA for 1 and immediately regretted it at the first sign of significant weather variation.

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It is almost a cliche but my friends who moved to LA truly do miss the seasons, especially leaves changing colors. It is like living in a giant open-air mall all year long. When nothing changes but the store displays, the seasonal heartbeat is lost. Living in LA, of course, means they can go to the beach all-year long with a short commute though. Snapchat is particularly smart for having its corporate headquarters al…

I live in LA (somewhat new, but I have been in CA for years), and I do not miss seasons at all. It has been many years since I have seen snow, and I plan to keep it that way. I cannot recall the last time I was in below freezing weather. I am an avid cyclist, and it is amazing to bike year round. My tan lines are very prominent from the amount of cycling I do in sunny weather.

Cycling is fun. Skiing is orders of magnitude more fun.

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Yep, Calgary, Alberta. I wager that the folks from northern Montana have the same weather as us.

I grew up in Edmonton and you have to be honest, -35C is an extreme temperature that is only rarely reached. Almost every winter gets to -20C or -25C but -35C can happen but isn't an every winter let alone every day occurrence. And anyways... it's a dry cold :-) Winters here in southern Ontario are fairly mild but they feel worse to me than where I grew up. A damp -10C is just awful, so hard to get rid of the cold fe…

It's usually the deepest part of the winter - I think we'll usually get one week where it's -30 and dips (occasionally) beyond, with the rest of winter being -25C at its coldest.

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You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

Wow, I had no idea about that. TIL. I always thought all of Mexico was very hot year round.

Mexico City is 7200 feet above sea level. Keeps it quite nice.

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You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

It's similar to Medellin with an average high around 22ºC all year.

check : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn#Geography_and_cl...

average high is 27 centigrade. average temp is about 22.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Or they could just stay in San Diego all year round....

I was gonna say... the trip to Alaska seems unnecessary. Average highs never surpass 70°F in San Francisco: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/san-francisco/californi...

Unnecessary but fun. This maximises travel and experiences while keeping the temp the same. Someone needs to do this for their gap year

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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It is almost a cliche but my friends who moved to LA truly do miss the seasons, especially leaves changing colors. It is like living in a giant open-air mall all year long. When nothing changes but the store displays, the seasonal heartbeat is lost. Living in LA, of course, means they can go to the beach all-year long with a short commute though. Snapchat is particularly smart for having its corporate headquarters al…

> It is almost a cliche but my friends who moved to LA truly do miss the seasons, especially leaves changing colors.

I lived in Orlando for eight years and suffered the same thing. At least, I think I lived there for eight years. It's hard to tell, because it started to feel like an unbroken smear of days.

I live in Seattle now, and I love the cadence of seasons. It helps mark the passage through my life and I get filled with positive anticipation of every single seasonal change. I love picnics and playing in the sun in summer, mulling cider and carving Jack-o-lanterns in fall, snuggling under blankets and driving to play in the snow in winter, and, uh... OK, so spring here doesn't have too much to offer. But it's a good lead in to the incredible summers here.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in LA (somewhat new, but I have been in CA for years), and I do not miss seasons at all. It has been many years since I have seen snow, and I plan to keep it that way. I cannot recall the last time I was in below freezing weather. I am an avid cyclist, and it is amazing to bike year round. My tan lines are very prominent from the amount of cycling I do in sunny weather.

+1. I absolutely do not miss seasons in Southern California. On the contrary, I'm much happier when I (almost) constantly have great weather.

After about 10 years out of the Northwest (and a particularly severe drought here in CA), I've finally started to miss the rain a little bit. But I sure don't miss the constantly-ruined plans or the incessant depressing grey.
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