Rather Deal With Hot or Cold? (1 Viewer)

[mr roboto]

You have to live somewhere where it's either pretty cold or pretty hot for long stretches (2 months)

Cold - 0-40 consistently

Hot - 90+ with high humidity or 105+ dry desert heat. 

For the purpose of this poll  let's say the remainder of the year is mild or pleasant.  Job opportunities, family, recreation and any other factors are equal. 

 

[Cjw_55106]

I dont mind either. 

Neither choice seems too extreme IMO. 

 

[shadyridr]

Hot without question

 

[TheAristocrat]

0 - 40?  I'll take that any day.  That's not bad at all.

 

[Wrigley]

When it's cold: hot

When it's hot: cold 

 

[nirad3]

Hot without question

Having lived in Austin for 6 years and Mpls/St. Paul for 2, I can unequivocally say +1.

I actually enjoyed living in Austin.  Nothin' like being able to wear shorts/polo/sandals on a sticky hot summer evening.

 

[belljr]

Those are both typical NJ weather

I love the heat.

Hate the cold

 

[Limp Ditka]

I can always put on more clothes

I can only get so naked

 

[Jayrod]

Cold weather makes me want to die.  

Hot weather makes me really live.

 

[E-Z Glider]

Id take hot over cold, but honestly I think its the lack of evening daylight that I hate the most about winter.

 

[Jayrod]

I can always put on more clothes

I can only get so naked

I can jump into a pool.  I can't jump into a fire.

 

[General Malaise]

Oregon for the win!

 

[Dan Lambskin]

I get to enjoy both

 

[Pipes]

Cold though a few days of sub zero weather makes me re-think that.  One thing about the cold it keeps a lot of nasty critters away...scorpions, killer bees, most poisonous snakes, alligators just to name a few.  We don't have to deal with that kind of crap when the weather is actually nice.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'd rather deal with the cold, and it's not close.  My wife and I used to live in southern Indiana -- during the summer, it would be 85-90 every day with virtually 100% humidity.  That's just awful.  Now that we live up north, the cold doesn't bother me at all.  I can run outdoors in single-digit temperatures, but not in 90-degree temperatures.

That's just me of course.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Give me a tropical Island any day of the year.

 

[AcerFC]

You don't have to shovel anything hot

 

[jamny]

I like both

 

[General Malaise]

I'd rather deal with the cold, and it's not close.  My wife and I used to live in southern Indiana -- during the summer, it would be 85-90 every day with virtually 100% humidity.  That's just awful.  Now that we live up north, the cold doesn't bother me at all.  I can run outdoors in single-digit temperatures, but not in 90-degree temperatures.

That's just me of course.

I did a 5K in Michigan in March.  This was a few years ago and I thought it would be fun.  It was single digits at the start and I felt like I was smoking a sweater trying to breathe in.  Humidity sucks too, but I'll never again try to jog out in cold like single digits.  

 

[popeye]

You don't have to shovel anything hot

sometimes shoveling can be pleasing

 

[The General]

I like variety and seasons.

The worst to me is high humidity. Not a fan unless I'm sitting on a boat.

 

[Da Guru]

It was sunny and 25 degrees out yesterday and was actually quite enjoyable. 

Even though the temp is the same it is a totally different feeling if it is 25 degrees but dull and gray out.

 

[Kanil]

2 months of 0 would suck.  2 months of 40 is practically shorts weather!

 

[pantagrapher]

Nothing against hot weather, but I can live without it. I need cold weather in my life at least part of the year.

 

[Parrothead]

can deal with cold, but not wind chill..  I hate the wind..

wind blows

 

[Sand]

Honestly it isn't the temperatures that bug me (we get a bit of both here), it's the amount of daylight.  That predisposes me to want hot more as I want daylight at 8:30 instead of dark at 4:30.  Going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark sucks balls.

 

[Sinn Fein]

sometimes shoveling can be pleasing

what does that pic have to do with shoveling?

 

[Koya]

Hot, easily.  For one, at 90's with humidity I am not going to die of exposure if I am standing outside for a couple hours without the "right clothes" - hell, gimme some water and I'm good for hours.

Second, cold HURTS.  Hot is uncomfortable.  

With Polish and Russian blood you'd think I'd prefer cold, but can't stand it.  Heat I can deal with. 

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

You have to live somewhere where it's either pretty cold or pretty hot for long stretches (2 months)

Cold - 0-40 consistently

Hot - 90+ with high humidity or 105+ dry desert heat. 

For the purpose of this poll  let's say the remainder of the year is mild or pleasant.  Job opportunities, family, recreation and any other factors are equal. 

I think those ranges are a bit skewed. 

The Hot end of the scale is fairly extreme, but your cold end is a range that encompasses both really cold and moderately cold. If you changed it to -10 to 20 degrees, I bet that a lot more people would say no thanks to that.

 

[RUSF18]

I would put up with 6 months of cold like that if the summer was capped at 80 with relatively low humidity. 

 

[Spanky24]

I've lived in both extreme hot and the extreme cold. Easily, give me the cold weather for 2-3 months.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Having lived in both Houston and Chicago, I have experienced both ends of this spectrum.

I played golf on the hottest day ever in Houston (at the time, the record has since been broken). That wasn't a great idea and I wouldn't do it again, but I played 18 holes and managed to have a bit of fun. The last 4-5 holes of the back nine were pretty damn miserable though.

When it was really cold (though not a record) in Chicago, I would get bundled up in basically everything I could put on to take the dog for a walk. And on at least one occasion we couldn't even get around the block without turning around and heading back inside.

 

[Sand]

I've lived in both extreme hot and the extreme cold. Easily, give me the cold weather for 2-3 months.

Given your location it's a good thing you like choice #2.

 

[Spanky24]

Given your location it's a good thing you like choice #2.

We moved back here after 5 years in the Arizona sun. It wasn't the primary reason we moved back, but call us crazy, we missed the cold.

 

[Koya]

We moved back here after 5 years in the Arizona sun. It wasn't the primary reason we moved back, but call us crazy, we missed the cold.

When I lived in LA I missed the seasons, but not the cold.

That's what sucks most about warm weather climates... while the cold sucks, when it's mid or late march and you've had one last long cold snap for weeks where it's hardly nudged above freezing for a high, and then BOOM 52 degrees!  Peeps our in shorts, the ladies putting on skirts, everyone energized.

Rinse and repeat for first time it hits 65, 70, 75...  

The fall is also awesome... less so than spring if only because we know it ends in ####ty ### cold winter.  But coming off hot and humid August September just begins to reset thing. Then you get some sweater weather and football, cool crisp days. It's awesome.

Then you freeze and get depressed for a couple months until that first day when it hits 52... and it's all worth it again. 

 

[Angry Beavers]

Hot without question............ of course where I live it is bitterly cold 2 months a year......... at least. 

 

[Koya]

Hot without question............ of course where I live it is bitterly cold 2 months a year......... at least. 

I'd also say that the ranges given are not the extremes.  REALLY hot would mean 98+ with some humidity, or 107+ more dry heat. REALLY cold would seem to begin at  negatives without windchill, -15+ with.

NOW you are talking how to deal with dangerously uncomfortable weather on both ends.  I'd still go hot, personally.  

 

[msommer]

You don't have to shovel anything hot

Ever heard of sand storms?

 

[msommer]

When I lived in LA I missed the seasons, but not the cold.

That's what sucks most about warm weather climates... while the cold sucks, when it's mid or late march and you've had one last long cold snap for weeks where it's hardly nudged above freezing for a high, and then BOOM 52 degrees!  Peeps our in shorts, the ladies putting on skirts, everyone energized.

Rinse and repeat for first time it hits 65, 70, 75...  

The fall is also awesome... less so than spring if only because we know it ends in ####ty ### cold winter.  But coming off hot and humid August September just begins to reset thing. Then you get some sweater weather and football, cool crisp days. It's awesome.

Then you freeze and get depressed for a couple months until that first day when it hits 52... and it's all worth it again. 

This. Seasons rule

ETA: Except winter, obviously

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Just 2 months of hot 105+ dry heat?  Where do I sign up?

 

[gianmarco]

I hate cold weather.  It takes so much time, especially with kids, just to go out places and I find myself avoiding going out as a result of it.  With hot weather, it can be uncomfortable, but you just get ready and go.  All the stupid layers, then taking them off when going indoors, then back on for outside, and keeping track of gloves and hats....#### that.  And as others said, really cold actually hurts.

Factor in shoveling, ice with increased traffic and accidents and falls, and getting snowed in at times....forget it.  

 

[Bull Dozier]

Easy answer for me is the heat.  Of course I live in Minnesota so we get plenty of time in the "extreme cold" zone the OP listed, and a little less time in the "extreme heat" area, but the heat is much easier to deal with.  You don't worry about your car not starting in the heat (usually).  Roads don't become unsafe in the heat (usually).  You don't have to shovel anything in the heat.  While it may not be pleasant in extreme heat, your extremities don't start to physically hurt in the heat.

 

[Psychopav]

Cold weather FTW.  High heat with no humidity is second.  80+ with high humidity is THE WORST.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I have spent tens of thousands of dollars over the years on vacations in places where the temperatures are 90+ degrees, but not a nickel going anywhere that it is ####### freezing.

 

[PIK95]

Cold, no doubt.

 

[PIK95]

I hate cold weather.  It takes so much time, especially with kids, just to go out places and I find myself avoiding going out as a result of it.  With hot weather, it can be uncomfortable, but you just get ready and go.  All the stupid layers, then taking them off when going indoors, then back on for outside, and keeping track of gloves and hats....#### that.  And as others said, really cold actually hurts.

Factor in shoveling, ice with increased traffic and accidents and falls, and getting snowed in at times....forget it.  

We hide in the house for days when the humidity goes up in the summer.  We go north to play in the snow in the winter.  Heat and humidity are awful.

 

[General Malaise]

I have spent tens of thousands of dollars over the years on vacations in places where the temperatures are 90+ degrees, but not a nickel going anywhere that it is ####### freezing.

LOOK AT ME, I DON'T HAVE TO VACATION IN MICHIGAN WITH WIFE 2.0.  

 

[Tom Servo]

Given that I'm on blood thinners, I will take the heat every darn day. I'm under a blanket for any day below 40 degrees.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I can always put on more clothes

I can only get so naked

It takes me a lot longer to warm up than cool off.

I could handle two months of cold. But in Minnesota we get about...eleven.

It was freaking ridiculous in Fargo, ND this last weekend.

 

[Koya]

I will say this - while I hate the cold, I love the snow.  Love snowstorms, love driving around in it (at least so long as I have my Jeep), love walking around in it.  

Granted, once you have a couple feet of frozen brown and black sooted cement bricked up everywhere the snow definitely loses its charm. Still love snow, though.