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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
#42This can be a nice calculation based on the contour lines. I'm sure there are several local optimal solutions (Bay Area, San Diego) but I'd be interested in working on an elegant "doable" solution (e.g. no more than 200 miles of travel a week)
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#43It 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…
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#4421ºC 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.
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
That is quite tempting. I think that's my optimal temperature zone!
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#45Or you could just live in the SF Bay Area, and do a mild east/west traverse that doesn't range more than 50 miles. Problem solved.
But then you'd have to live in the SF Bay Area ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you miss the part where he doesn't want anything higher than 70°F?
San Diego is pretty much 68 to 72 year round. In the summer it might get a little warmer and in the winter a little colder on select days, but it's a pretty tight range.
Speaking as a San Diego native, it does get colder than 68 and it definitely gets warmer than 72. Summers can get a little hot when the Santa Anna winds kick in. However, compared to vast majority of places on earth, our weather is better.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
That is quite tempting. I think that's my optimal temperature zone!
Just don't breath the air.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can go to the beach whenever you want, but even in July the water is friggin freezing.
A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in San Fransisco, and it was a warm, sunny day (to my friend's surprise). We were hanging out at a beach when we see a guy in a speedo walk by, towards the water. Before anyone could warn him, he jumped in the water, immediately jumped out, then ran back to the parking lot. My guess is he was European - people from the West coast would know not to go in the water, and American…
Are you sure that you didn't simply misunderstand what he was doing? When you're used to five degrees celsius water in the summer there really is no such thing as "too cold to enter"...
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#49I wonder how the route changes as a function of the desired temperature.
Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
#50Or stay in Santa Barbara pretty much year-round.
If you can afford it.