Would you rather live in a hot, humid area or a cold, dry area?

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Originally Posted by guambomb832

Yea but then you would spend more money on A/C because your are lowering the temperature which means your thermostat will have to keep restricting and allowing electricity to pass to maintain your set temp.

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It really goes both ways. If one designs a dwelling with sustainability being the main goal, ie. proper building orientation, insulation, and glazing, it is possible to maintain comfortable temperatures without having to run a HVAC system much at all. :)

I live in a hot & humid area, while I don't like the humid part, I definately wouldn't want cold, Cold = Snow, Snow = Rust, also you can't drive a high hp car in the snow, and up north also has stricter emissions.

I like temperate and seasonal regions.

I LOVE warm dry regions, like the desert.

Mike

I've lived in Florida so long I don't know what cold and dry feels like! Yes, we have to run the AC to be comfortable in the summer but we don't have to run the heat to stay warm in the winter, so that seems like a tradeoff to me.

I love not having to worry about snow and ice, but then I have to worry about afternoon thunderstorms (usually every afternoon in the summer from the two sea breezes colliding), lightning strikes (Central Fl is the lightning capital of the world) and the occasional hurricane. Of course with hurricanes, you know they're coming for days before they hit . . . not like tornados in the "alley" in northern Texas southern Oklahoma.

I would probably be just as uncomfortable in the north in the winter as someone from the north would be here in Orlando in August . . .

Humid weather is digusting, and how anyone can like that is beyond me.
I hate when weather people on the news say it's and ugly day when its a cool overcast day, but say it's beautiful when there's 90F+ weather with like 80% humidity

Hot and humid Alabama for me, I hate everything about cold weather