Most Moderate Climate States/Cities

[ShrekDawg]

We also get them in october

Oh wow!!

 

[The Poultry Life]

Oh wow!!

So don't move to Maine. Maybe visit (DO NOT be a tourist in tourist season, it's a nightmare), but please leave the bad weather to those who grew up with it. You do not deserve to be stuck in the middle of a snowstorm, without power, and a whole thanksgiving feast to cook.
If you do decide to move here, make sure to have a generator, and a woodstove.

 

[ShrekDawg]

So don't move to Maine. Maybe visit (DO NOT be a tourist in tourist season, it's a nightmare), but please leave the bad weather to those who grew up with it. You do not deserve to be stuck in the middle of a snowstorm, without power, and a whole thanksgiving feast to cook.
If you do decide to move here, make sure to have a generator, and a woodstove.

Thanks for the info! It’s very useful lol I’m somewhat a neighbor but didn’t realize it was that bad

 

[The Poultry Life]

Thanks for the info! It’s very useful lol I’m somewhat a neighbor but didn’t realize it was that bad

It's because all you see down there is big tourist advertisements for us. We really are not that amazing, just have a lot of wilderness, which everybody else turned into stupid skyscrapers

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's because all you see down there is big tourist advertisements for us. We really are not that amazing, just have a lot of wilderness, which everybody else turned into stupid skyscrapers

Hmm that makes sense lol

 

[Nabiki]

Tornadoes scare me lol

How about earthquakes? CA natives don't worry about anything below a 6.0 and even then will be like, "Did anything break? No? No big deal, then."

 

[rosemarythyme]

How about earthquakes? CA natives don't worry about anything below a 6.0 and even then will be like, "Did anything break? No? No big deal, then."

The first one is always scary but after that, I slept through so many (or flat out didn't feel them). Like you don't even bother getting out of the bed unless stuff starts falling over... you just lie there, think about taking shelter, and if it's over by that point, back to sleep.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Hawaii. Fairly consistent temperature year round and the trade winds help with the humidity. The downside is hurricanes and tsunamis, Maybe a volcano (depending on the island), the cost of living, and the remoteness make it almost a guarantee you're waiting for ANYTHING you want to order.

There are ups and downs to all the "moderate" places. You're trading off temperature ranges for things like population, cost of living, location, politics (they may have very different views) natural disasters, etc... Ideally, you have a summer place somewhere cool and a winter place somewhere warm and you snowbird between them. If you can manage to find them both close to each other, win.

AZ is like that. Winter in Phx, Summer up on the rim some place where the highs stay in the 90's and you get rain. I can be up the hill 1-2 hours away and it's a completely different world. And we don't have a lot of natural disasters. We have one dormant volcano, rarely a tornado (MAYBE 1 a year and they're like EF1), hurricanes even less frequently, the works. Cost of living is fairly decent for now, and even most of the most rural places in the state have decent amenities.

 

[ShrekDawg]

How about earthquakes? CA natives don't worry about anything below a 6.0 and even then will be like, "Did anything break? No? No big deal, then."

The first one is always scary but after that, I slept through so many (or flat out didn't feel them). Like you don't even bother getting out of the bed unless stuff starts falling over... you just lie there, think about taking shelter, and if it's over by that point, back to sleep.

Hmm that doesn’t sound too bad then

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hawaii. Fairly consistent temperature year round and the trade winds help with the humidity. The downside is hurricanes and tsunamis, Maybe a volcano (depending on the island), the cost of living, and the remoteness make it almost a guarantee you're waiting for ANYTHING you want to order.

There are ups and downs to all the "moderate" places. You're trading off temperature ranges for things like population, cost of living, location, politics (they may have very different views) natural disasters, etc... Ideally, you have a summer place somewhere cool and a winter place somewhere warm and you snowbird between them. If you can manage to find them both close to each other, win.

AZ is like that. Winter in Phx, Summer up on the rim some place where the highs stay in the 90's and you get rain. I can be up the hill 1-2 hours away and it's a completely different world. And we don't have a lot of natural disasters. We have one dormant volcano, rarely a tornado (MAYBE 1 a year and they're like EF1), hurricanes even less frequently, the works. Cost of living is fairly decent for now, and even most of the most rural places in the state have decent amenities.

I really want to informative this post because it really is informative!! Thanks for all the info. Lots of good points and stuff to think about.