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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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Post by jmspring »

I'm born and raised in the Bay Area (a native, of sorts). Between work and family, I've travelled more than a little bit the last few years. I live on the coast, we used to have some great storms in the late 90s, but nothing impressive in over 10 years.

For me, I need the change of temperature (sure it's between about 8 and 21-25C, but a variation). The lack of light in winter affects me more.

I've been through one Finnish winter and had visits to Tallinn (-30C), Stockholm (-12C) and Munich (0C) one work trip where 0c really felt like I should be wearing shorts.

What I can't deal with is hot and humid. Arrived in Germany about two weeks back, it was 33C and humid. Not enough showers would help not feeling "sweaty and dirty".

I think some variation is useful. I also miss rain.

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

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Post by emcq »

pseudometa wrote: post #32
wallflower wrote: post #11

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…

Don't people travel? I have lived all over the country and currently love living in San Diego because I can visit areas of the country enjoying the seasons for a week at a time. A week of raking leaves, a week of shoveling and scraping windows. And even in LA, the mountains are less than an hour dive away. They can experience all 4 seasons in less than an hour drive.

I loved living in San Diego but nothing in the mountains compares to the lush spring, deep winter, hot summers with water temperatures warm enough to not wear a wetsuit, or crisp fall you get in other parts of the country you've undoubtedly visited.

Southern California is wonderful for a variety of reasons but the "I can drive to all 4 seasons" disregards some of the important details you don't get anywhere in semi-arid California weather, fauna, and ocean you have in the rest of the country.

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

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Post by devy »

mmastrac wrote: post #8

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.

     21ºC for us non-Americans
Funny you said that:) "By the end of the 20th century, Fahrenheit was only used as the official temperature scale in the United States (including its unincorporated territories), its freely associated states in the Western Pacific (Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands), the Bahamas, Belize, and the Cayman Islands."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

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

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Post by Avshalom »

cesarbs wrote: post #61
pacofvf wrote: post #31

Earlier 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

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

Like half of Mexico is at least a mile above sea level

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

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Post by zippergz »

donretag wrote: post #59
wallflower wrote: post #11

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.

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

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

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Post by g4k »

pacofvf wrote: post #31
mmastrac wrote: post #8

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.

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.

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

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Post by Citrusfizz »

selimthegrim wrote: post #50
blacksmythe wrote: post #39

Or stay in Santa Barbara pretty much year-round.

If you can afford it.

Lived there for 10 years. I loved it. But it got way way to expensive even if your making close to 100k. That and its not big. stuff can get boring there.
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