Oh… but we have one other thing that I bet Texas doesn’t have, and that’s the Christmas display I mentioned. The Santa and the plastic pelican sleigh. 
That’s just too much! But maybe in your state, Santa drives eight tiny bowls of chili? 
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Each day is a gift… that’s why today is called the present!
NJ is pretty nice. You just need an indoor, a good source of water, fans, & heating.
NY is nice, in some areas. We went to Gardnertown in May & there was snow on the highway 
LI is BEAUTIFUL! The Hamptons are soooo nice, I would definatly move there.
NC is omg so nice. Its another perfect place.
Live in one of those 3 places, & show up & down the east coast. The secret to being a star 
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Kris
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It’s actually not too bad here, most of the time. It’s not humid, so even when it gets hot, it doesn’t feel quite as yucky. The weather can be kind of crazy (like snow in the middle of May…), but it usually doesn’t last for too long. 
For year round perfection it is hard to beat the west coast (allthe way up to Portland). Along the ocean is always more moderate than anywhere else inland.
But MY ideal (weather-wise) would be Fla in the winter and Vermont in the summer.
I think Northern California, not far from the coast, or Napa, would be pretty darn great. My personal experience: lived in the Caribbean, grew up on Pennsylvania, born in Australia, when to college in Massachusetts, lived in Hawaii, now live live in Florida.
As far as overall best place I’ve actually lived Maui would be at the top of my list. Clean, safe, beautiful. Upcountry Maui gets cool enough for fireplaces. Downside, it’s expensive and job opportunities all revolve around tourism or construction. Quality of life is extremely high however, everyone has health insurance!
santa barbara sounds perfect. we’ve had a hot, humid summer here and winter will be coming soon, and i am sooooo sick of snow and ice and heavy coats and hats and doubling the horse blankets and…
I Live here.Horses home.I have very
good footing in my outdoor arena…
but,it usually pours something awful
before the first freeze.So…before
the arena can dry off it freezes! 
One side of my arena is in the shade so it never thaws.I am sick and tired of losing most of the winter to frozen ground.
My friend lives in Fl and rides early in the summer but at least she can ride all year.
I am feeling the need for a change and FL looks good to me.Even if you think it’s to hot to ride in the summer at least you only lose 2 months of riding.
and Western Maryland.
I lived up there for a while, and my Southern blood was not frozen by the winters, the springs and falls were magnificent, and the summers were pretty tolerable.
Pittsburgh is a wonderful city, with hospitable people, a lovely location, and near decent mountains.
Wonder why I don’t move back?
There is actually a book called “A Texas Christmas” or something…Santa DOES have a sleigh pulled by 8 longhorns. Silly ErinB, don’t you know that chilli just isn’t strong enough to pull all of us Texans’ BIG stuff?
http://pub51.ezboard.com/fhorseoncoursefrm5
Junior Clique!
What about Tennessee?
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Florida…it’s no vacation. Unless of course you like 120 degree weather with 183% humidity that sucks the very slobber from your horse’s mouth!! 
I remember a year or two ago here in VA, my dad was leaving for the Bahamas in the middle of winter, and they were not calling for any snow, or anything for that matter. My moms only vehicle was a Mazda Miata. The night my dad left she said “I really need to go to the store tommorow, we don’t have much to eat”. Next day, I wake up and start getting ready for school, open the blinds and find 2 feet of snow and the trees totally iced over. I was like HOLY CRAP! Then my mom woke up, and started freaking. Very interesting storm!
Courtney
I ride, therefore I am.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lord Helpus:
For year round perfection it is hard to beat the west coast (allthe way up to Portland).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Well lets just make that all the way up to Canada.
Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, especially Victoria/Cowichan Valley.
We got it all- sun, ocean, never too hot, never too cold, just enough snow to make Christmas traditional, just enough rain to keep the forests green.
And our dollar makes any 'murrican look like a millionaire! The best boarding places are still under $400US/month.
the bad thing about So. Cal is that b/c land is so expensive, most places don’t have lots of pastures, most places aren’t ready for rain, so not a lot of covereds, and everyone forgets how to drive when it rains!
AAjumper- I probably just cursed it to rain tomorrow, or have even MORE dry heat!
~Christina~
“Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, Darling!”
JD;Heathers
Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I am feeling the need for a change and FL looks good to me.Even if you think it’s to hot to ride in the summer at least you only lose 2 months of riding. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
AAAH! NO! Don’t do that to yourself! In addition to the extreme heat (which is worst July-August, but it’s in the 90’s all day in June, part of September and sometimes even May, too), you also get constant mosquitoes in the wet months and MONSTER grasshoppers the size of baseballs in the dry months! Seriously, if I went outside right now I’d walk five steps and get smacked by a grasshopper. They just leap out of nowhere and the worst part is when they hit you in the face or on the head! Also in the wet months are the AWFUL gnats. Ear nets on horses are like… well, Band-Aids on gaping wounds when it’s gnat season. Don’t open your mouth or you’ll swallow some, and try not to breathe in too deeply or you’ll inhale them.
Oh, but I’m not done yet. Florida gets winter, too. It will get cold enough here to freeze the water in the buckets and troughs solid enough to stand on and impossible to break unless you have a baseball bat. It will get could enough here to double blanket during the day, it will get cold enough for down comforters and parkas, and it will get cold enough for your hands to freeze, even when wearing winter mittens over mitten liners! Yet through all of that… it won’t snow here (not even enough to look pretty) and Christmas will feel totally empty. The store near me will (I kid you not) decorate during Christmas with a plastic Santa on their roof…driving eight LIGHT UP PELICANS! Oh, the horror. Oh, the tackiness.
Then, when the cold is finally tapering off, it’s time for Weird Weather. 35 degrees one day, 78 degrees the next. Rain one minute, intense sun the next. One day there might be a hailstorm, the next day completely clear, and two days after that there’s a tornado watch. You won’t be putting your winter wardrobe up until May or so, despite what you may think, since the weather changes so much. Oh, that goes for the horse blankets too.
So yes. That is Florida. The sunshine state.
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Each day is a gift… that’s why today is called the present!
West Virginia is looking pretty good to me right now, despite what y’all say about it. I found a house with an indoor pool in WV! Ahh… now if only my parents would MOVE!
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Each day is a gift… that’s why today is called the present!
Alaska is still where it’s at. Our state is its own zone. We are the biggest state. If you cut us in half, each part would still be bigger than Texas!
Rebecca and Pirateer The Pi, 9 yr old bay tb gelding.
“You WISH you could ride like a girl!!”
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Where do you guys feel is the best place to live, climate-wise? I suppose it depends on your ideal, but my ideal is just sort of a happy medium. 
Having lived in Arkansas (WAY too hot), Wisconsin (WAY WAY too cold), and Florida (again, WAY too hot… but at least you don’t have to shovel heat), I can’t say I’ve ever lived in my ideal climate. I thought perhaps a state on the East coast midway between North and South, like NC or VA, but everyone says they’re still very hot in the summer. 
I’ve been to NC in the summer and don’t remember it being that hot, but coming from Florida I think I dulled some nerve endings or something by now. So then I thought of PA, but I don’t know if I could take the cold! So maybe something like Tennessee or Kentucky? What about WEST Virginia? Maryland?
Not that I think I could actually move there (we’ll see), but I like these topics.
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Florida…it’s no vacation. Unless of course you like 120 degree weather with 183% humidity that sucks the very slobber from your horse’s mouth!!
well there hasn’t been a MAJOR fire or flood in my area for at least a couple of years, and up until this week we’ve had a mild summer!
~Christina~
“Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, Darling!”
JD;Heathers
Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.
I will just say that Santa Barbara has some of the best weather. It is about 72 degrees year round, blue skies with a couple light puffy clouds every now and then. There is mountains with in walking distance of the ocean. There is eve na lake nearby. There are no tornadoes, hurricanes, floods or even large earthquakes (just a couple smaller ones coming from faraway places). It rarely gets hot and never really gets cold at all. Daytime is beautiful and sunny with the nights cooling of a bit so that you can wear cute little sweaters.
I have lived there for almost 30 years and I have found that the weather anywhere else just makes me miserable. I am so spoiled!
I find it a cruel joke of the God’s that I was not born in the South. Givme warm weather anytime over four feet of snow for five months in the winter.
In Michigan, half the year is winter. Unless you like igloos, snowdrifts and ice storms, don’t move here.
~Insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over and expecting different results~
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