Growing up in Arizona: 120 sucks but whatever.
Growing old in Texas: Furiously googling real estate in Wyoming.
Today's it's too damned hot googling target, what's Sioux Falls, SD like…
I’ll be furiously googling Colorado Springs starting tomorrow.
Colorado Dreamin’
On such a summer's day.
@paul 😎
@paul but after living 4 years of this I feel I earned weather in New State.
@kdbdallas @paul my last place would hit 120F sometimes. Don’t miss that shit now that I moved to snow country.
@Sonikku @paul I hate the heat but will take it over the cold and snow. Lived that life for way too long. Hated shoveling

@kdbdallas @paul to each thier own. Lived in snow places before and never much minded it.

I do much better with cold than hot haha.

4 years of AZ summers and I was done :-P

Give me the snow!

@Sonikku @kdbdallas I'm thinking of the snowbird life.
@paul @Sonikku if you can make it work then it’s totally the way to go

@paul @kdbdallas

Can’t blame anyone there. Temperatures are getting out of control, and not gonna get better any time soon with the way we’re doing things.

Everyone gonna be heading north eventually.

@paul oooooh… now do San Francisco!! 😶‍🌫️
@exkclamation @paul I occasionally have a video call with an intern working from the San Francisco office. He likes to complain San Francisco is too cold.
@kccqzy @paul the intern is wrong 😉😁 LOL
@paul I live in Colorado Springs. Happy to answer any questions! It’s a weird place, not Portland weird, but different weird.
@paul Hmm. It’s developed in some strange ways. Prior to the evangelical move here in the 80s, it was actually a fairly moderate, artsy, smallish community. So there are a lot remnants of that heritage still around. The military bases create a third community that doesn’t neatly fit into arts/patrons or evangelicals. So there’s a fair amount of tension that creates some interesting community situations and conversations.
@paul I live in a part of town that has a good mix of folks and has some of the best ethnic food options and variety around. There are plenty of outdoor activities of all sorts so if you’re into that stuff you’ll have all the options.
@nathanwillers I'm basically into sitting outside when its not 105+.
@paul @nathanwillers also happy to answer questions about Denver. I live in Wheat Ridge and it's lovely
@paul yeah, we have a lot of that. Sun is intense here because of altitude (6500 ft give or take) but it cools into the 60s or 50s every night and evening deck hangs are lovely.
@paul right there with ya
@paul I usually don’t tell anyone about summers in Western Washington, but… they’re pretty nice.
@adam way too long of a drive. 😢
@paul as long as you don’t mind the occasional forest fire or Christian nationalist hate group, it’s fine.
@paul Come join us in Colorado! Not the Springs though, come north where all the fun people are. 🙂
@paul It's 69 in San Francisco and people are driving out of town “to experience this so-called heatwave."
@paul I’ve been in the Springs for a couple years now. Beautiful place but consider the wind in your research! Chicago has nothing on this place
@paul What’s the water situation? Not a question people think about much now, but they will over the next few decades. Too late for Phoenix, as an example, but the whole southwest will have trouble meeting demand.
@paul Bellingham, WA seems nice. On the coast, close to Seattle and Vancouver, not too big. Weather should still be good in 30 years.
@chrisheinonen @paul The City of Subdued Excitement
@paul here’s to hoping your grid holds up 🙏🏻
@paul not so fast. Springs is in El Paso county, fwiw.
@paul I'll be in Jackson, New Hampshire in two weeks and sooooooo looking forward to it.
@paul colorado springs sucks
@paul we’ve been getting high 80s and low 90s in the New Mexico high dessert, but overnight it gets so cold we had to get extra blankets so we could leave the windows open.

@paul

Too humid in the summer, too cold in the winter

@paul we passed through a few weeks ago while on a road trip and stopped by the falls. Highs 80s and humid wasn’t to my taste but I’ve gotten soft living in the Bay Area for awhile…
@paul it’s absolutely miserable in early January is all I know. I’m sure it’s lovely in the summer.
@paul https://www.weather.gov/fsd/venus Dammit wanted to link this page I remembered that’s inexplicably part of Sioux Falls but the NSF is apparently anti-fun
The Planet Venus

@paul move to Iceland for half the year!
@samerfarha that’d be a really long drive.
@paul yes, but the summers there are worth it!
@paul My parents went there on their honeymoon. To hear of it, I would not recommend it!
@paul very green and lush this time of year!
@kiel as long as its not 105°.
@paul the heat index can get bothersome, so if you don't care about deciduous trees, rapid city is also worth checking out
@kiel a lot longer drive there.
@paul @kiel Grew up in SW Minnesota less than an hour from Sioux Falls... Many, many good memories in Sioux Falls growing up, but I'd definitely advocate for the Twin Cities over Sioux Falls if you're just trying to get north 😁 (but really, Sioux Falls is a wonderful town too, but I'll always choose Minneapolis or St Paul over it)
@calebspronk @paul @kiel totally agree on the Minneapolis and Saint Paul recommendation. Was 78 here today.
@paul i guess in my brain anything over 4 hours and under 16 hours is basically the same - long 😂

@paul Austin is becoming unbearable. Thinking of giving Colorado a try.

Better weather and politics.