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In reply to the discussion: Some retirees are rethinking Florida after Irma [View all]lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)35. Won't ever get me down there.
For all of the above reasons.
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8 elderly allowed to boil to death in that hot nursing home would certainly turn me off to Florida.
SunSeeker
Sep 2017
#1
I would think evacuating across the street to the hospital air conditioned lobby would
MLAA
Sep 2017
#77
don't a lot of them go back home during the summer and fly back when it gets cold?
pstokely
Sep 2017
#73
I put Macon, Georgia in August and Houston most any time for breathing water in the air.
dixiegrrrrl
Sep 2017
#22
Funny - the air in Las Vegas is so dry it made me completely miserable the one time I was there.
LisaM
Sep 2017
#28
thinking the same thing . . . don't want to visit? cool . . . .don't want to move here? . . . fine
DrDan
Sep 2017
#59
Exactly. Here in CA, the thick adobe walls of the old Spanish homes kept interiors cool.
SunSeeker
Sep 2017
#17
I agree with you about designing for this - I was in New Orleans in June a few years ago...
LisaM
Sep 2017
#31
Yes, but a little too cold & rainy in the winters for my taste. Love the greenery though.
SunSeeker
Sep 2017
#67
If I'm ever able to retire and can afford to relocate, I know where I'm going.
Ace Rothstein
Sep 2017
#19
Give me four seasons, summer, fall, winter, spring...each beautiful in its own right.
haveahart
Sep 2017
#23
Personally, I have never understood the horror of winter so many people have.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Sep 2017
#79