Best Place to Live

I should have rephrased the original question.
Since you live just below the artic circle your not getting where I'm coming from. My brother lives in the Colorado mountains about 8000ft and loves it.
I just tell him one of us was adopted and I don't think it's me.
It should have been "Somewhere Better Than Kansas Spastic Winter Weather".

I can take the heat and humidity any day.
If it's 95 and humid I'm all over it. Nothing like a good sweat to clear the mind.
The top of my head gets sunburned easier now so I have to kind of watch that.

When it starts to freeze, along with the midwest version of a hurricane, rain/snow all at the same time. I shut down. Simple as that. I've lived in the area all my life and it seems to get worse every year.

We may do some traveling this summer and check out a few places.
We only have one more tax deduction to get out of the house and then we are on our own.

If we don't both physically cave in first, change is coming for us sooner or later.

If you like a good sweat- move to FL. We've been here 27 years- I've had enough sweat! Interestingly, where we are, near the west coast, it never hits 100 degrees. Our typical summer high is about 93-95, from May through October. The humidity is very high, but the sky is clear, rarely hazy like when it's hot up north. We've decided on the upstate of SC, very close to NC. The mountains are about 7 miles from our land. We bought very usable land for $10K an acre, only 15 miles from downtown Greenville. We have to live near a city for work. FL has gotten too crowded and expensive for us, and acreage near a city is $$$.

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Try Mexico or Panama.

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Well i was gonna answer ya, until i saw yer post about u likin' the heat n humidity.
and i thot, there just ain't no point in this okie gal telling u how much better n. MT is if you feel thataway.

Sounds just like DH. He was born here in Phoenix, and every year he says the heat and humidity are getting more and more unbearable. He wants to move someplace where it's not quite so hot. Me, I don't really care if it's cooler or less humidity, I just want to live where it's GREEN!

To many Mexicans and Panamanians there.

Of all the places traveled I would have to say Queensland, Australia between Brisbane and Cairns somewhere.

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We have now officially entered the twilight zone.

Several years ago when DW and I were checking out Australia (we lived in a small town then) we called The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce one night.
This was long before we had internet. We hadn't gone rural yet.

After chatting them up for awhile they agreed to send us the classified section of there newspaper along with some details about there city.

If I recall the economy was about the same as ours at the time.
Taxes were alot higher based on the income I was making at the time.
Upwards of 50%.
It's been awhile and I can't remember any more specific details.

Yeah, actually -- we can. An F3 ripped through Manitoba last summer -- 10 miles from our place.

Canada is not the USA. However, if you're looking for moderate climate, I'm afraid we're not what you're looking for. It was -50 with the wind chill here two days ago.

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I'm your brother's twin.

After doing research, Steve Soloman chose Tasmania. Steve's books are very popular in the Pacific Northwest US and elsewhere. He wrote a GREAT book - Gardening When it Counts that is applicable for anywhere but the desert and ice. The other book I really like is Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades.

He lived here for many years and then moved to Tasmania because he felt the area was safer and offered the lifestyle he was seeking. I found his website: http://www.soilandhealth.org/05steve'sfolder/05aboutmeindex.html

Here's some info about Tasmania.
http://www.development.tas.gov.au/migration/living.html

It might be worth considering.

I find it interesting that in the winter, everyone wants to move where its warm and doesn't snow. In the summer, everyone wants to move where it doesn't get extremly hot.

There is no place that is perfect!

Actually, I just want to move where it's greener and the word "drought" isn't in the local vocabulary except as a discussion of what's going on somewhere else! Oh, I WILL go for "not a lot of snow" as well. Being a desert rat, I don't think I could handle too much of the fluffy stuff!

I don't believe there is a place on Earth where the word drought isn't a possiblity.

We had an EF5 go through within a hundred, 125 miles of us last year and another to the west although not quite so powerful. Don't have to tell Kansans about tornadoes! Fixer...ever consider the Ozarks? Aside from the unbearable humidity, it's absolutely lovely down there. The heat doesn't bother me as much as the suffocating humidity. I figure there are enough swimmin' holes down there that you can deal with heat.

As long as 13+ year droughts aren't the norm (which is what we're having) I might be ok