My hats off, - couldn't do it, ...

[TexasShooter72]

Albeit I may be in Texas now(in the heat) but I've lived the majority of my life near the beach in California.  My first year here I sweat bullets on a regular basis and the humidity just killed me.  Well into my second year in Texas now and I've acclimated.  One has to make some adjustments to such weather.  Having lived in Durango, Colorado, for one of the worst winters they'd had in years I'd take the heat over that winter any day.

It isn't for everyone but the south has a pride about it for a reason!

[Jaymo]

Yep, we get high 90s and humidity of around 99 percent here in GA. I work outside in the sun and inside warehouses that feel like ovens. I drink over a gallon of water a day in the summer.
My buddy lived in Phoenix AZ for about 5 yrs and said the 120 degree heat with the low humidity wasn't bad. He married an AZ girl and moved back here. By April she was griping about the humidity. I told her to wait until July. They ended up moving to the North GA mountains.

[TCups]

I agree with brother Jerry and PeakChick

I will take hot over cold every time.  And as for hot, when it gets too hot in Columbia, I just head for the mountains of WNC.  Always 20 degrees cooler there, and always a pleasant breeze.

[North Pack]

53* this morning, - nice, and going to get better as fall approaches.

[daveshoot]

Since I live in Oceanside, San Diego area, it would not really be fair to respond. It has been a bit warm lately. The coastal area of San Diego is thermostatically controlled to be ideal weather for humans almost year 'round. It is hilarious to hear anyone here complain about the raregraydays or the very occasional quarter inch of rain in winter.

I lived most of my life in Michigan, and you don't notice winter too much if you grow up with it. Until February or March, when it seems like it will last forever.Keeps the bugs down. Germany was somewhat similar to Michigan. I have never dealt with heat very well and I thought August was the worst month in Michigan due to the high humidity, bugs, and ragweed.

Then I lived in Fresno- baking hot, not AZ but not a whole lot better. You knew it was winter because everything turned green. Weird.

To punish myself I am now moving over to the east county in the hills. I will be hot again, but in California it's what you have to do to get enough property to shoot. I will never live in an HOA again and I will not come home to a "tract house" that is identical in detail to every other home in the area, like cell blocks with pink stucco. I will trade some weather for that. It's a dry heat, as they say, and I think a happy medium between Michigan and Fresno. Then I won't feel as guilty about complaining about the weather.

[triry]

dave...did you finally find the ideal place ? from the threads, it sounds like youll be in fallbrook ? keep in touch, we're having an "end of summer" bbq at my place on the 5th of september !!

[bodiej]

I'd give up this tallahassee weather to be back in NH in a heartbeat!!

[North Pack]

Things have changed, ...
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http://www.breitbart.tv/august-in-new-hampshire-temperatures-dropping-into-the-30s/

[daveshoot]

Jim, I found the ideal place, at least on my budget. It is in Valley Center, about 1.5 miles south of Valley View Casino, and a mile or sonorth of Lake Wohlford. 2.5 fenced acres with a well, and no city water. Mostly open pasture type stuff, at least 100 yds clear fields of fire in a couple directions, grazing for critters and plantable.

Only one problem... there are some rodent issues... gophers and ground squirrels . Whatever shall I do?

I don't want to jinx the deal but we are headed to a mid-September close, and October 1 occupancy. Couldn't believe how fast we sold the place here, and just hoping nothing goes wrong with allthe real estate deals required to pull this off.

Julieshoot wants some goats, but she herself is due in January (that's going great, too), and I am headed back to Saudi in October, so we might taketheAnimal Farm bita little slow.She knows itmight be open to the SD fun shoot crowd a little sooner... thank goodness for shooting mommies! Hope to see you and the family up there if it all goes through. I have had a few irons in the fire but will get back up to shooting speed once we are in the new place/ranch/farm/range.