Where are the mildest winters?

[country_wife]

DH and I have been discussing retirement plans, and I'm voting for a place with VERY mild winters. Maybe even a 'green-all-year-what-the-heck-is-snow' type place.

I'd love to hear from some of you in the milder climates. What's your winter like? Summer? Precipitation? Mosquitos? (an up side to the dry conditions this year..very few of the little vampires! )

Thanks!

[big rockpile]

I always liked South Texas.For mild Winter.

big rockpile

[Kmac15]

I am sure that FL would have the mildest winters but here in SC it is not bad at all. It can get in the teens for a few nights during the winter but not for long.

[Windy in Kansas]

Since the forums have international participants are you limiting your questions to U.S. states?

Hawaii has a rather steady climate.

Hm, I think I heard that Florida is now growing some coffee, but California grows some bananas. Think I also heard that southern Texas is growing some rather tropical plants. Expect Florida is most temperate, but probably most uncomfortable during the heat of the summer.

[country_wife]

I should've mentioned that I lived in FL for a while..Hoooooomid! lol What about the drier climates? How hot are the summers? I can easily handle 90+ if the humidity isn't too bad.

[suburbanite]

how much money do you expect to spend?

[bill not in oh]

Ruidoso, NM has the most TEMPERATE climate I've ever experienced. It does snow in the winter, but it will likely be in the 50s a couple of days later.

Cabo San Lucas?

Pretty much anywhere on the European coast of the Mediterranean.

[Sand Flat Bob]

Originally Posted by country_wife

DH and I have been discussing retirement plans, and I'm voting for a place with VERY mild winters. Maybe even a 'green-all-year-what-the-heck-is-snow' type place.

I'd love to hear from some of you in the milder climates. What's your winter like? Summer? Precipitation? Mosquitos? (an up side to the dry conditions this year..very few of the little vampires! )

Thanks!

For the best climate, go to a very far south latitide and go high in elevation. Costa Rica comes to mind. Stay in the mountains, by the capital, wonderful weather summer and winter. Helps if you speak Spanish.

Bob

[Cabin Fever]

Hawaii?
San Diego?

[Ramblin Wreck]

You might want to check out some of the higher elevations inland from the California coast, like Julian (east of San Diego). There are some great places in Arizona and New Mexico that are drier and not so hot in the Summer, BUT they get much colder in the winter than most easterners would think. Even the Sahara gets very cold at times. Good luck in your search.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Only retire to San Diego if you have won a 20 million dollar lottery and you like traffic.

Our place is halfway between Houston, Texas, and Corpus Christi. Not much winter here. In fact, my best friend from Missouri stays here with us to escape the Missouri cold from about October to April.

We don't have ticks and chiggers like they do in Missouri, but we do have heat and humidity and mosquitoes in the summers.

[Jan Doling]

You have to be a native to understand Florida!

[Tricky Grama]

We went to St. Augustine, FL for a short vacation in August & it was a WELCOME relief from out Texas (Dallas area) Aug. heat! Was hot but could walk around town during the day w/o suffocating & eve's were almost cool.

Patty

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by country_wife

DH and I have been discussing retirement plans, and I'm voting for a place with VERY mild winters. Maybe even a 'green-all-year-what-the-heck-is-snow' type place.

I'd love to hear from some of you in the milder climates. What's your winter like? Summer? Precipitation? Mosquitos? (an up side to the dry conditions this year..very few of the little vampires! )

Thanks!

Anywhere close to the equator.

It won't really HAVE a winter.

[tnborn]

tn. no winter to speak of in the last 5 years. You'll just love the ticks and mosquitoes tho.NOT

[dare2b]

Seems like any place with mild winters is going to have hot and/or humid summers and lots of bugs and other varmints, including snakes. Darn it, ya just c'aint have everthang. Oh yeah, San Diego, and just about anywhere on the west coast of the US, also has those pesky earthquakes.... Plus, getting closer to the equator will warm up your winters, but they have rainy season instead, plus all the critters....

[booklover]

I don't live here, but dh did. He says hands-down, San Francisco/Silicon Valley is the most wonderful place to live climate-wise... but you will have needed to be seriously padding the old IRA to move there with the cost of living so high. Small fixer-upper on no land is over 1/2 mil. $

[Thoughthound]

My father and my grandparents both moved around a lot. My grandfather held a job in every state except Hawaii.

My father insisted San Diego had the best year-round climate.

My grandparents said Medford, Oregon had the best.

They lived, however, in Minnesota in the summer and New Mexico in the winter until they moved to The Dalles, Oregon.

I can say for certain it isn't Iowa. 20 below in winter and 95 in summer with 99 percent humidity.

[goatsnchicks]

I have an uncle who lives in Hawaii. Very mild winters there.

[palani]

Gila Bend Arizona is the hottest place in winter within CONUS.