The answer to the title is simple.
"It depends on the person".
Each individual has so much going on today, that you could create a billion environments and people would still not be satisfied with the weather.
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#62Is it me or is Mexico missing from his country ranking? ( https://leisurepurpose.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/countrycl... ) I was very curious to see where my country fell in that list.
If San Diego is on that list then Tijuana / Ensenada should be on it too
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#63The answer to the title is simple. "It depends on the person". Each individual has so much going on today, that you could create a billion environments and people would still not be satisfied with the weather.
A billion answers, got it. Thank you for your informative and helpful contribution.
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#64I did something similar back in the late `80s when I decided to leave Los Angeles after living there for about 15 years, but weather was not the only criteria I looked into.
I also looked into cost of housing, wages, employment, acres of public land, annual rainfall, proximity to nuke plants, air and water quality, crime rates, taxes, schools.
It took me a long time to gather the data I wanted to review. Back then I bought an "US Alamanac" to help with my research and it was a great resource.
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#65I did something similar back in the late `80s when I decided to leave Los Angeles after living there for about 15 years, but weather was not the only criteria I looked into. I also looked into cost of housing, wages, employment, acres of public land, annual rainfall, proximity to nuke plants, air and water quality, crime rates, taxes, schools. It took me a long time to gather the data I wanted to review. Back then I…
Where did you land?
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#66It's really important to keep in mind that climate can change dramatically in only short distances. From last week, at the same time it was 100F in Sacramento, CA, it was 60F in Inverness, CA. Same latitude, same elevation. The two are about 100 miles apart, a short distance when searching the globe. I cite Inverness, CA because it has the best weather for my tastes: 20F annual temperature range with average high jus…
Average high under 70 is cold for most people. That's too cold for most water related outdoor activity which is what summer is based around for many people.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically you want seasons instead of monotony.
This is touched on, and you can get a lot of those things by living in an area with different climes in close proximity, for example a coastal region that rises into mountains not too far away. So the question is, if you want snow some times, do you want to live in the snow, or have access to the snow, and how close is close enough? The bay area has Tahoe, which you can reach in about 4 hours, for access to snow. If…
For me personally I like for it to snow but not hang around more than a day or two. Southeast is kind of ideal for this. Couple snow storms a year in the peak of winter and during those the low is normally around the 20s. It can snow on a Monday and be back hitting 70 by Thursday.
Though it can lead to ice and things like the Atlanta snowpacalypse.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not against what he's saying, but green vegetation generally means a good source of water, which is handy to have: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_security
Indeed, but millions of humans have lived for millenia in places where grass does not grow easily. It's a different culture in so many important ways from the one found in areas with plentiful water, and has evolved over thousands of years to deal with "the world as it is".
> Indeed, but millions of humans have lived for millenia in places where grass does not grow easily.
And what were the populations of those communities? Did they have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of individuals draining natural resources?
In recent times humans haven't really done as much accepting the "world as it is". We've tried to shoehorn ourselves into circumstances where we probably should not have. I am reminded of the episode of the cartoon King of the Hill where they visit Phoenix:
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#69Most of European Coastal Mediterranean, (Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Albania, southern part of Croatia), including Portugal, San Diego, and anything close to the ocean in California (as long as it is not in the fog belt like San Francisco), South Africa, and perhaps some parts of Australia and Latin America. Basically, anywhere where it is sunny 'Mild Mediterranean' weather, that it is not too hot (North Africa is…
> southern part of Croatia That's where I live. Summers get much too hot to be called mild, but it's the winters that are annoying as hell. Everyone pretends that the cold doesn't exist, so insulation is terrible and so is heating unless you want to pay through the nose for electricity every month. Seriously, winters were much better when I lived in the capital, which is continental and colder but has actual amenitie…
Exactly this: if your house / environment is well adjusted to the circumstances it makes a much bigger impact on the overall experience then the average temperature.
Switzerland as in my example, is about as close to perfect as I have experienced. Yes we get snow in the winter, yes it get hotish (up to 38C.) in the summer, but the houses and streets and road services are all well capable of handling these fluctuations.
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"In Bern, the summers are comfortable and wet, the winters are very cold, and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from -4°C to 24°C (in freedoms: 26°F to 76°F) and is rarely below -10°C or above 30°C. (14°F or above 86°F)"
From: https://weatherspark.com/y/56086/Average-Weather-in-Bern-Swi...
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#70Each to his own. I prefer some variety. Thunderstorms on summer afternoons and deep powder in the winter. If it's good enough for a bugling elk, it's good enough for me.