When you get off that plane in Orlando, if in new terminal, look up, we designed and installed those skylights!
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Left Michigan in 91 and moved to Lauderdale area, five years there and now 28yrs in GA.
Left Michigan as I hate snow and ice, still do, cold was a meh thing at that age. Now at 60 I hate any temperature below 65 or 70 lol.
Love GA as someone else said you get all the seasons and winter is quick compared to MI and doesnāt last as long. Prefer heat over cold
We also prefer the mountains over the beach. When we lived in Fl we had an apartment on a canal in Pompano Beach and could walk to the ocean in under 10min. First couple years lived at the ocean nights weekends etc. Last few years rarely went.
Now in GA we can be in Cherokee, entrance to Smoky Mountains in 2 1/2 hours, we go frequently. Leave early do a hike in the morning, lunch in Gatlinburg, hike in afternoon and home by 7-8pm.
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Iāll do my best to remember, brother. Very cool.
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Joe Cullen disagrees.
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You can have that in Costa Rica in the mountains. If you move to the coast you get the beach, but also the heat and humidity. Lived all over here, there are a ton of microclimates. But in the mountains, people donāt need furnaces or air conditioners.
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Being military I lived in several states:
SW Oklahoma we would consistent days well over 100 degrees throughout summer but they were dry and winters got pretty cold. Louisiana - Actually not as hot as Oklahoma but humidity is terrible. Normally in shorts at Christmas. Virginia both coast (bad humidity milder winters) and Northern Va (shenandoah valley) (less humidity and slightly colder winters) Ohio summers were not different enough to make a difference but winters were colder with bad snow coming off Lake Erie. I do love the seasons but overall I think I prefer the heat over the cold. But as you can see I have never lived north of Ohio and that could make a difference. Cold rainy weather is the worst to me. Cold enough to snow as air is drier and does not feel as bad. All in all where I live now (Winchester VA) is pretty decent weather. Not terrible humidity (we have some hot days but certainly not like further south) and winters are normally to severe (we do get too much cold rain). But unless you live somewhere like Hawaii you are prob notably going to get seasonal weather.
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Lawton I assume. My father-in-law lived there for a decade and yeah it was often very cold at Christmas time.
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I should shut my mouth. Iāve never been to West Virginia. I hear itās absolutely stunning from a natural beauty standpoint. My viewpoint is clouded by the fact that my dear friend is from Morgantown and he absolutely despises West Virginia. Every time he has to go back and see family itās like heās being sent to storm the beaches of Normandy. To be fair though heās a progressive professor that has lived in Eugene, Oregon for 15 years so heās probably not the West Virginia type.
Yep - I was an Artillery officer so I spent a lot of time there. Cold in winter and blistering hot in summer. First place I ever lived where things would melt in the car during summer if you left them in the car. Have a lot of good memories from our time there but not somewhere I would pick to live long term.
Iāve been through there. It is really pretty, very green and a lot of rolling mountains. I drove through WV on my way to Myrtle Beach from Detroit, and I was unexpectedly surprised by it. I am not that surprised about your friend not liking going back. Going through that area is a bit like stepping backwards through a time portal. This isnāt an insult, going through a lot of places here in Kansas is the same way. There are a number of small towns and ghost towns which you can tell have not changed hardly at all in 50 years.
For him, he probably sees it as a backwards era that he wanted to run away from, and going back is a reminder of that time.
He likes Huntington the best if he has to be in West Virginia. I know very little on the topic. When I lived back east I had a number of my mid Atlantic friends love camping there but they echoed your time warp feelings.
If you like stories, this guy tells stories about Appalachia and the culture. His stuff is really good, done in a respectful way, itās a lot of old time legends and things. West Virginia is definitely a part of that culture. They are a different type of people, but very defensive about it too.
Interesting. I was Artillery enlisted for 20 years, followed by AFATDS FSR contract work for 22 years. Spent time Active at Ft Hood, Korea x 2, Ft Campbell, Ft Greely Alaska, Ft Benning, Ft Sill (8 years), Ft Carson. Then retired and moved into the AFATDS FSR work at JBLM for 19 years and then finished up my FSR career at Schofield Barracks Hawaii for 3 years.
Wonder if we ever crossed paths.
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I donāt blame you, not much too the place outside of the base, despite its decent size. Too hot, too cold, flat. Watching the storms roll in is great, but not a reason to live in a place. I did spend some time at a, ahem, club just outside of town called the Why Not? once as a college freshman, sort of a rite of passage deal. I remember very little of it.
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I was in Benning for 14 weeks while I attended OCS but we did not get out much LOL. In Ft Sill from 85 - 90 ish. Not been any of the other locations listed. Thanks for your service. I actually loved FA but not much you can do with it in the civilian world.
I was born in Ft Gordon. I was there for 2 weeks and couldnāt take the heat anymoreā¦moved to MI and stayed there, until I graduated college.
I do miss the South. But love the Northern Midwest 6 months out of the year
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Moved to Florida from Michigan after 35 years and nothing about the weather has made me regret that choiceā¦even with the hurricanes and humidity. Honestly the worst part are the New Yorkers
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This seems to hold true across many aspects of life.