Why the North?

[Lavender2]

Why The North? Because you enjoy a never ending sheet of freezing white stuff limiting your out door activities??

You evidently have never had the exciting opportunity to pull a walleye up through a hole in the ice, or put a carrot nose on an 8' snowman, or x country ski for miles on glistening ....okay, yeah, some of just shovel snow, complain and wish for spring ...

I agree @canesisters, I could not live in 122°!

 

[digitS']

If I lived very far south, I would like to live "up!"

Yes, as in altitude ... I could be high all the time!

See, then I could have the cool, comfortable, dry air ... I'm probably not correct associating dryness with high elevation ... or am I? Anyway, there would be cool nighttime air.

If we do that old feet elevation = degrees latitude, we come up with just about my environment here equivalent to 8,000 feet in New Mexico. The difference? No long, long nights of winter darkness ... sob!

In the southern hemisphere, of course, I could still live comfortably at 2,000 feet and live 48° south of the equator ... but please, for just 6 months at a time. Before it gets dark!

Daylight when I'm sleepy doesn't bother me - I'm too olde for that prob .. le .. mmm ... zzzzzz

 

[baymule]

You evidently have never had the exciting opportunity to pull a walleye up through a hole in the ice, or put a carrot nose on an 8' snowman, or x country ski for miles on glistening ....okay, yeah, some of just shovel snow, complain and wish for spring ...

I agree @canesisters, I could not live in 122°!

You are right, I have never ice fished or cross country skied, but I have made snow men....

 

[canesisters]

Bay, a snowman made of tumbelweed doesn't count as a real snowman

 

[Hal]

Great Googlie-moo!!!! Hal, where do you live??? In that place where the 'snowball has no chance'??????? Oh my goodness, I would just keel over if the forcast was for 122 - EVER.

Down Under.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

If I lived very far south, I would like to live "up!"

Yes, as in altitude ... I could be high all the time!

See, then I could have the cool, comfortable, dry air ... I'm probably not correct associating dryness with high elevation ... or am I? Anyway, there would be cool nighttime air.

If we do that old feet elevation = degrees latitude, we come up with just about my environment here equivalent to 8,000 feet in New Mexico. The difference? No long, long nights of winter darkness ... sob!

In the southern hemisphere, of course, I could still live comfortably at 2,000 feet and live 48° south of the equator ... but please, for just 6 months at a time. Before it gets dark!

Daylight when I'm sleepy doesn't bother me - I'm too olde for that prob .. le .. mmm ... zzzzzz

In compensation with no seasons, you could garden year round. Including those crops that NEED perpetual cool, like the Andean corns. After years of banging my head trying to grow them here, a part of me would LOVE to live somewhere they actually work.

 

[baymule]

Bay, a snowman made of tumbelweed doesn't count as a real snowman View attachment 4273

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It does if I put a coat on them and pretend they are cold!!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

It sort of reminds me of a old mondegreen (a mondegreen is a lyric of a popular song that a lot of people mishear. Like the people who thing the opening lyrics of the Beach Boy's "Help me Rhonda" are "Well, since you put me down, there been owl's puking in my bed")
Some people think the middle of Let it Snow" goes "In the meadow we can build a snowman, and pretend that he is sparse and brown" Yours are, I guess.

 

[thistlebloom]

...and pretend that he is sparse and brown...?? Funny!

 

[digitS']

Now, stop that!

I would like my past relationships with snow men (& women) to just be water under the bridge.

Other than bringing and holding much needed moisture, snow reflects some light, that probably would just go to global warming ... you know the best thing about living in an igloo with climate change? You've still got the loo. Worst thing? No privacy!

Steve