Are you from the south?

[salsadancer7]

I love the pacific northwest and the Vancouver area but I can't see living anywhere else than northeast Oklahoma. We normally have 4 nice distinct seasons , which I love, and not the 40 days of triple digits we have had this summer and only 4 days less than 90 since June 1. We normally don't have 5ft of snow in a 2 week period in the winter like we did last winter. My biggest problem moving to the south would be the sec, sec, sec :devil:

LOL!

Back to sports... I attend my 1st SEC game about 3 years ago, it was surprisingly the only loss the Gators had, it was the Ole Miss 31-30 win at "The Swamp". I had an AMAZING time(a very good friend is a Gator alumni and he invited me with a few other friends). I LOVED the atmosphere! I am trying to see if I can hit the Georgia vs Florida game this year, but it might be stretch.

 

[Ronnie-]

LOL!

Back to sports... I attend my 1st SEC game about 3 years ago, it was surprisingly the only loss the Gators had, it was the Ole Miss 31-30 win at "The Swamp". I had an AMAZING time(a very good friend is a Gator alumni and he invited me with a few other friends). I LOVED the atmosphere! I am trying to see if I can hit the Georgia vs Florida game this year, but it might be stretch.

I remember watching that game at a poolside bar on the beach. Great game!

 

[salsadancer7]

That's the problem, I'm an outdoors person. I hate the heat. While the people up North suffer in the Winter while we do outdoor activities, we suffer in the summer while they enjoy the outdoors. I love my job but I hate Florida. Many who work with me do as well.

Plenty to do. I have gone boar hunting up the in the panhandle, fresh water fishing, deep sea fishing, skeet shooting, trail hiking and even did some "skunk ape huntin"(don't ask...LOL! Loong but interesrting story...)

Gotta be like my marine buddies and 'adapt to your surroundings'.

 

[salsadancer7]

I remember watching that game at a poolside bar on the beach. Great game!

There ya go.... Can't do that in the north in late September/early October... your skin will turn purple and get frost bite before it is even winter! Not to mention the OTHER things that happen when the pool is cold... LOL!

 

[televisionarchives]

Plenty to do. I have gone boar hunting up the in the panhandle, fresh water fishing, deep sea fishing, skeet shooting, trail hiking and even did some "skunk ape huntin"(don't ask...LOL! Loong but interesrting story...)

Gotta be like my marine buddies and 'adapt to your surroundings'.

That's fine in the Winter. No so much in 95 degree heat and 100 percent humidity. Florida sucks

 

[Ronnie-]

The heat and humidity are brutal, no doubt about that. I cant say it has ever kept me from an outside activity that I wanted to do, or needed to do (work). Precautions should obviously be taken, just as they should be taken being outside in freezing temps.

Its all in what you are used to or can tolerate I guess.

In any case, the real story here is the superiority of Southern Football.

 

[salsadancer7]

In any case, the real story here is the superiority of Southern Football.

LMAO!

The most obvious is all the Florida recruits all over the place.

 

[cybok0]

Plenty to do. I have gone boar hunting up the in the panhandle, fresh water fishing, deep sea fishing, skeet shooting, trail hiking and even did some "skunk ape huntin"(don't ask...LOL! Loong but interesrting story...)

Gotta be like my marine buddies and 'adapt to your surroundings'.

I know I want to move to a warmer state but the humidity would suck, that's why I want the SW.

 

[osu1991]

The heat and humidity are brutal, no doubt about that. I cant say it has ever kept me from an outside activity that I wanted to do, or needed to do (work). Precautions should obviously be taken, just as they should be taken being outside in freezing temps.

Its all in what you are used to or can tolerate I guess.

In any case, the real story here is the superiority of Southern Football.

:haha I was with you until that last sentence.

 

[salsadancer7]

I know I want to move to a warmer state but the humidity would suck, that's why I want the SW.

I will take humidity 10 times over "wind chill factor" any day of the week! ;-)

 

[fhsucade07]

That's the problem, I'm an outdoors person. I hate the heat. While the people up North suffer in the Winter while we do outdoor activities, we suffer in the summer while they enjoy the outdoors. I love my job but I hate Florida. Many who work with me do as well.

I agree. I have lived in North Georgia all my life and I hate the heat and humidity. You lack any distinct seasons other than a short winter and really long summer. The jobs don't pay anything (even with a graduate degree) and everyone becomes offended if you want to drive, work or move at a pace faster than them because "it's the south and we are supposed to move slow here..." I guess I am different than most people in that I love fall, winter and snow. I guess my favorite places would be New England and Upstate New York (colors are wonderful in the fall, the weather lacks so much humidity and from my experiences the people are among the friendliest I have met). But I also love the stretch from northern California up through British Columbia. And you know, I have always enjoyed some parts of Kentucky, Oklahoma and Iowa as well. (I know Kentucky is considered southern). I try each Fall to get to New England and Eastern Canada but it isn't going to happen this Fall due to an obligation at work - a few people that will be out for extended periods during that time... I normally try to go in October.

 

[fhsucade07]

And I'm not arguing about the SEC.

 

[HD MM]

I will take humidity 10 times over "wind chill factor" any day of the week! ;-)

The thing is, cold doesn't drain you of energy. Brutal heat does. Try doing a strenuous activity outside in both conditions. I'd rather do it in the cold than brutal heat.

 

[Ramy]

There ya go.... Can't do that in the north in late September/early October... your skin will turn purple and get frost bite before it is even winter! Not to mention the OTHER things that happen when the pool is cold... LOL!

LOL! Not where I am at. To contrast just how different the temps can be from one year to the next on Christmas day.....One year it was below zero and I don't know if it was the next but it was 75 and I was playing golf.

 

[Ramy]

I agree. I have lived in North Georgia all my life and I hate the heat and humidity. You lack any distinct seasons other than a short winter and really long summer. The jobs don't pay anything (even with a graduate degree) and everyone becomes offended if you want to drive, work or move at a pace faster than them because "it's the south and we are supposed to move slow here..." I guess I am different than most people in that I love fall, winter and snow. I guess my favorite places would be New England and Upstate New York (colors are wonderful in the fall, the weather lacks so much humidity and from my experiences the people are among the friendliest I have met). But I also love the stretch from northern California up through British Columbia. And you know, I have always enjoyed some parts of Kentucky, Oklahoma and Iowa as well. (I know Kentucky is considered southern). I try each Fall to get to New England and Eastern Canada but it isn't going to happen this Fall due to an obligation at work - a few people that will be out for extended periods during that time... I normally try to go in October.

Come up to KY during the fall, the colors are just as beautiful.

 

[vurbano]

If so, congratulations! Your football team is superior.

Really no point to this thread, but the Bama spring game is Saturday, and its never too early for a little football trash talk.

ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[televisionarchives]

Keeping this on topic here is an interesting thing I heard from someone on WEEI years ago. He talked about the south and north when it comes to sports. He was some kind of doctor. He said a football player playing in the cold will burn more calories then someone playing in the heat. A player will sweat more in the heat but a player will burn more calories in the cold. You body works to keep you warm when your cold. All you do is sweat in the heat. I think he called it thermogenesis.

 

[Ronnie-]

And I'm not arguing about the SEC.

Because there is really no reason. We all know that what I have said is true.

 

[salsadancer7]

The thing is, cold doesn't drain you of energy. Brutal heat does. Try doing a strenuous activity outside in both conditions. I'd rather do it in the cold than brutal heat.

I have done both. You adjust. When I lived in Chicago, I use to jog on the lake front until late December.

 

[HD MM]

I have done both. You adjust. When I lived in Chicago, I use to jog on the lake front until late December.

Yep. I know. It's doable. Try jogging in Miami in July when it's +100°F. Not doable.