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I lived for 46 years in north central Ohio and moved to south Texas almost 4 years ago. I always watch the weather up yalls way and wonder how I lived in that crap all those years? Tonight while I sit here the temperature outside is 72 degrees and I have not had the furnace turned on once since last February! How many of you would chose 32 degrees over 72 degrees? Get the hell out while you can! But don't come down here because someone let the secret out that it is just as nice, if not better than Florida down here and the winter Texans have all the good spots! 
Just wait till next season, I have heard that for over 40 years!
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How many of you would chose 32 degrees over 72 degrees?
I would. Not all year long, mind you, but I do like the different seasons. Glad you like Texas....you can keep it.
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Glad you like Texas....you can keep it.
Guess I will. The last winter I spent in Ohio was a nightmare. One morning as I was preparing for work (after digging my truck out of the drive) I saw a snow plow in the ditch.
You know what? Common sense told me if those big plows (which are meant to be out there) can't make it any sane person should stay home.
And then a couple of days later, after one of those teaser days where the temp got to 45 degrees and the snow melted. The next morning I headed out the front door to work and when I hit the front porch all that had melted had turned to ice. I busted my arse!
Needless to say I fell to my back side and hurt for weeks. No more!
I hear so many native south Texans moan when the temperature dips to the 40 or 50 degree range and say it is cold. I look at them and say it is not cold untill that water puddle out there, turns solid enough to walk on! 
Just wait till next season, I have heard that for over 40 years!
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Oh yea since it is forcast to be 82 degress and sunny tommorrow and I have the next 2 weeks off of work I think I will got out to the beach and work on my tan! 
Just wait till next season, I have heard that for over 40 years!
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Who the heck would live in Texas???  Feet up, on the beach, surfing this weekend....aloha! 
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How many of you would chose 32 degrees over 72 degrees?
Raising my hand. Who wants to be running their air conditioner in the winter 
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I can tolerate the cool and cold weather of a Pennsylvania fall and even a bit of snow for hunting and Christmas. As soon as January 2nd rolls around, I'm ready to head South. Given the choice, I'd take the heat!
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Christmas time is the one time I miss the cold and snow, it just doesn't really seem like the Christmas I know, but I'm here and not going anywhere so I deal with it.
Other than that, I don't mind not having the cold and snow, winter here is nice, gets chilly but not usually COLD, and stays cool enough to enjoy the outdoors during the day.
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I'm glad you enjoy the area of the country you live in.. Thats great. This time of year, I bet it's great to be sitting out side, have a cold brew,, enjoying a sunset.. What's it feel like with 150 mile an hour winds during hurricane season.. just wondering?
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And then a couple of days later, after one of those teaser days where the temp got to 45 degrees and the snow melted. The next morning I headed out the front door to work and when I hit the front porch all that had melted had turned to ice. I busted my arse!
Most folks know that melting snow = water + drop in temp = ice.
You're probably safer in Texas.
I'll take the four seasons......thanks anyway. 
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I need my fall for hunting & fishing, and dont even mind the cold temps, it's that darn wind chill that kills me as I get up in age.
I'm like the other guys, give me snow & cold in December, but after Jan 2nd I'm ready for Spring
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I like the seasons too....that is why SE Tennessee is perfect.
Rarely snows, and never stays cold for any length of time.
In Feb, you have more days in the 50's then you do days in the 20's.
It can get hot in the summer though, I will say that is a negative.
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As bad as Ohio is in winter...that's just as bad as Texas is in the summer. The heat down there is unreal.
No thanks.
I'd rather have the fireplace and a hot coffee.
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O H! I O! I have lived in Ohio all my life and am used to the snow and cold. I like going outside and smelling the crisp cold air,,someones fire,,,the snow whipping ice stinging into my face. Lake effect snow that makes it sunny one minute and hell breaking loose the next. I like my car skidding off the road into a snow bank, and then getting near frost bite b/c I forgot my gloves as I dig myself out.LOVE the salt that coats your car windshield when you run out of washer fluid!! I like having 4 seasons,,watching the leaves change and playing golf in virtual slop the first time the temp breaks 50 in late February. Ohh yes, nothing beats Ohio baby! My furnace has been firing since October,,WOO! My damn water heater keeps going out. I must say on a cold morning not having hot water to take a nice hot shower really sucks the fat one. I have been waiting a half hour now,,grrrr
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Cowboy up!
Take a cold shower.
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No way man, I have done that before and it sucks I'll wait.
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Cold water can't be as cold as it gets outside.
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It's funny, because I know I have swam in Lake Erie when it was barely 70 degrees, but to take a shower in anything less than warm, no thanks, did it during a hurricane power outage, it sucked.  I don't even swim in my pool now unless it's 85+.
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Winter is actually my favorite month of the year behind summer. People complain about driving through the snow, I have to ride my bike to work and you dont see me bitching. I prefer 32 over 72 in late fall and winter Snow is beautiful
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LMAO, Texas is crap for weather. If I'm going to be jealous of a person's weather, which some around here think we should all be, it sure as hell isn't going to be Texas.
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Winter is actually my favorite month of the year behind summer.
People complain about driving through the snow, I have to ride my bike to work and you dont see me bitching.
I prefer 32 over 72 in late fall and winter
Snow is beautiful
I don't recall learning a month named "Winter" or "Summer"
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LMAO, Texas is crap for weather. If I'm going to be jealous of a person's weather, which some around here think we should all be, it sure as hell isn't going to be Texas.
Yeah, I'd invade Held's homestate before EVER thinking of moving to Texas to live. Yeah the Gulf Coast is nice but dang, wouldn't ya like to live in the tropics? Hawaii has some of the most wonderful weather anywhere and ya'll want to move to TEXAS???? Ya'll ain't right.  
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Cowboy up!
Take a cold shower.
he is alittle younger....At our age cold water srinkage dosent matter anymore...
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Cold water can't be as cold as it gets outside.
No way man. I can wear layers outside, you can't in a cold shower
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Lemme just tell you about my day.
I didn't work today, as I was scheduled to help in my daughter's class at school (she's 7 - first grade - I help out 1 to 2 days a month). Long story short, school was cancelled due to fog.
She and I went Christmas shopping for mom this morning. Alright - you can do that in any weather, right? Ok.
We came back and I had her call a friend and we went sledding, in the SNOW, at the sledding hill in town. We came home, I pulled the 2 of them, on sleds, in the snow, behind my 4 wheeler for 2 hours. And that's just in my yard. Just under 10 miles total is what I put on the 4 wheeler.
Know what the best part was? Hearing my daughter and her friend yelling, laughing, having a great time. Snow flying, them falling, laughing - them and me. Laughing at themselves, laughing at the other one........just a blast today.
Now, in Texas, yeah, we could've had fun too. But the fun you'd have in Texas, or Florida, or Arizona, or any southern state, would be the same year round.
Here, we get to sled in the winter, swim in the summer, we get to do all the same stuff as the southern people, but we also get to do the winter stuff.
Trade living in Ohio? Not me.
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Living in Spring Hill, Fl. about 40 miles north of Tampa on the Gulf of Mexico.
Never has been a direct hit on record of a hurricane here so can't really tell you about dangerous winds.
In the 2 years we have lived here the highest storm winds have been under 45 MPH. How hard was the wind blowing at the stadium last Sunday...I bet better than 45 MPH.
Some of you love your winter weather...some love the season changes...some are resigned to living where it's cold and dreary 5 months of the year...and the primary color is slushy grey.
Just got back from the north pier of the Sunline Bridge in the St. Pete/Tampa Gulf area. Grouper biting-mackerel running-80 degree temp with sunny skies on the 20 th of December.
Yeah, I like the seasons and snow----on TV!
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I enjoy living here in the desert. It is rather generic when it comes to the seasons. Luckily the world's largest Ponderosa Pine forest is just a 2 hour drive up the hill from Phoenix. http://gridirongauge.com/pix/flagstaff01.jpg
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What is a furnace?
You tell me next July.
At least when it blizzards up here we go inside. When you are inundated with water (via Hurricane), you have to evacuate.
I guess I would rather be confined to my home, rather than leave it!
Not to mention, the weather up here, keeps all you Texans down there!! 
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A Texas furnace is when you are outside or inside and your AC isn't working for the 90-100+ days of over 100 degree temperatures. This year it was much, much cooler than normal with all the rain down here. You should also tell them about the Hurricanes  , Spring Break and the great seafood down here. The winter temperatures are very nice though . There is something to be said for playing in the snow and the comfortable summer temperatures in Ohio.
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That's why we go skiing in New England every couple years, to get our fill of the snow. I do miss something about Ohio, one major one being season changes. But for the most part, Christmas time is the only time I really dwell on it. We still have season changes here, but they aren't as radical. basically our first cold front is what we consider the beginning of winter, which lasts til the last cold front passes by. One nice thing about Florida at Christmas, is when we have the family(mom, sister, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.) over Christmas Day, 25+ people, we open the sliding glass door, that opens up a clear 12', and can use the screened lanai for space. Not to mention the small kids always bring over their remote subs, boats, cars, etc, and play with them in the pool or backyard.
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A Texas furnace is when you are outside or inside and your AC isn't working for the 90-100+ days of over 100 degree temperatures. This year it was much, much cooler than normal with all the rain down here.
You should also tell them about the Hurricanes , Spring Break and the great seafood down here. The winter temperatures are very nice though .
There is something to be said for playing in the snow and the comfortable summer temperatures in Ohio.
I would add that you must be able to read Spanish as well so you can understand the signs, plus you need to ignore the thousands of day laborers/pan handlers, standing on the streets.
I spent almost a month in Dallas working earlier this year, and it sucked big time. I would never live in this city.
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Oh and one more thing, will you people get everything fixed already, It's seems the second word out of every Texans mouth is "fixin". I'm fixin, You fixin, They fixin, etc...
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How many of you would chose 32 degrees over 72 degrees?
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Raising my hand. Who wants to be running their air conditioner in the winter
Haven't turned the air on but once since Thansgiving and twice I've turned the heat on for an hour or so. Temps range from upper 40s at night to upper 70s during the day.
Hey guys...is that slushy mixture of snow,ice, dirt and road trash still that beautiful shade of grey?
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You want a medal for living in Florida or something? The way you brag about living there all the time you would think you invented the place.
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I've been to Florida enough times... nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there. But seriously, I'm glad folks are happy with the climate where they live, but why would you put down where somebody else lives?
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I've been to Florida enough times... nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
But seriously, I'm glad folks are happy with the climate where they live, but why would you put down where somebody else lives?
It makes up for lacking in other areas, I suppose.
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I agree Jules and DC. There's positives and negatives to each location and it will vary depending on the person. Had my mom not wanted to move to Florida after I graduated high school, I would still be in Ohio and probably not think much of the winter. Only thing i didn't like about winter in Ohio was driving to work after a fresh snow. Other than that I didn't mind it at all. Do I think Florida is the best place to live, and think everyone should be here? No. It's not for everyone, and at times it's not for me, but I'm here, have a family and career, and make the best of it. And its alot easier for a northerner to adjust to the south, versus a southerner adjusting to the north. I have some friends just moved back in October to Maine, and they are miserable right now.
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Having an opinion doesn't mean you're putting it down, just giving reasons.
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