I spent the first 18 years of my life in northeast Ohio. Then 2 years in Las Vegas. 5 years in San Diego then 18 years in Burbank.
Finally bought a house in Cleveland of all places.
Love it!
Love me some snow.
My parents lived in Tucson for 17 years. I agree with your take on it. I really like the town but I need greenery. Lots of greenery. Not just palo verde trees. I also like my four seasons, which I get plenty of in MN.
I used to live in NYC and moved down south, even though I love it up there, I don’t think I would ever move back- not during winter at least…
Sunburn hurts too. And heat exhaustion is no fun at all.
I know how to dress and keep moving in extreme cold. You can only take off so many layers in the heat - and moving about is not a goal at 110F.
I grew up and live near Buffalo, and I don’t want to live here.
San Diego. I grew up there (actually, somewhat east of there), and it was fucking miserable. Hot, dry, blinding sun everywhere – and none of the schools I went to had air conditioning.
It boggled my mind that people actually came here on vacation – until I visited my parents as a grown man, without having to do chores. Finally, I realized that it’s a lovely climate for doing nothing. Working and living, however, I’ll take San Francisco.
I live in Tucson, and totally agree about the lack of green… I miss seasons and COLORS! And it’s really true that you get tired of blue skies every day.
But I grew up in Houston, and I don’t miss the humidity one bit. I’m going back to visit over Christmas and I will enjoy the green and being near the ocean, but I have no desire to ever live there again.
I grew up in Michigan, and even in comparison to Michigan I think the winter weather in Minnesota is miserable. I am sure that Minneapolis is a nice place during its brief summer, but sadly I’ve visited there in the winter and that was enough to convince me I really would not be happy living there.
My biggest problem with winter in the upper midwest is that it’s just a little too long. If we had a month of snow and gray skies I’d be okay with that, but it just drags on and on. I aspire to be able to be a snowbird someday.
Wouldn’t move back to DC. It’s expensive and congested and the weather stinks.
I would say Dayton as well, but for me, it’s not even a nice place to visit.
When I last visited San Diego in 2008 I had fun seeing old friends and touring old nieghborhoods but I would not want to move back.
I never intended to return to Upstate New York, but I did to help care for elderly parents. I moved back for duty, and once I’m no longer needed here, I’m gone.
Another place I’ve lived I never wish to return to is the UP of Michigan. Went there for a job, and left as soon as I saved enough money to leave.
Upstate New York has great physical beauty, but, like the UP of Michigan, is too far away from the amenities offered by larger metropolitan areas, and is a lonely place for a middle-aged single.
Wegman’s, however, makes exile here bearable.
Hey! That’s where my mom and dad and their parents have lived the majority of their life. Its an awfully quiet place.
I grew up in Lake George, New York. Lovely place, and just close enough to Albany.
Living in Virginia now, I would totally go back to upstate NY.
A place on the Texas Gulf Coast that’s swampier, stickier and more mosquito-ridden than Houston itself, and an hour’s drive from anywhere. Not even nice to visit: I drove through once to visit, ascertained that yup, it’s still there, and have never been back since.
Funny, I have a coworker who says the opposite. He has seasonal affective disorder and can’t stand how gray it is in Michigan. His line is that when the temperatures are below 0F, at least the sun is out. He needs the sunshine.
I grew up in MN so I don’t know any better… 
I have reverse SAD. Sunny, hot weather depresses me, stormy or cold weather energizes me.
I finished high school in Northern Virginia. My brother and sister both live there, and I worked for a company based there. I loved going back so I could see family, and I really loved my company being in Dupont Circle. There is so much going on there, and the neighborhood is very cool.
I could never live there. Summers are ridiculously hot and humid, and on the rare occasions they get snow, the city shuts down. I can’t believe how people have to plan their days around traffic, and accept the fact that it will take an hour to go ten miles on a highway during a good portion of the day, weekends included.
WARNING! Post contains smugness!
I grew up in Napa Valley and never found a compelling reason to leave.
I want snow? The Sierras are two hours away.
I want ocean? An hour and a half.
Two major metropolitan areas only an hour away.
It’s totally autumn right now, too. The vinyards are all shades of red and yellow and the temp is in the mid sixties.
I was actually born in the Sacramento Valley, but we left when I was two. I don’t remember it.
Jumpbass, I think I hate you. Well, no; I envy you. When I grow up, I want to retire to Sonoma but I doubt I will be able to afford it. I love it there when the hills turn red and purple in November.
If only the wineries needed my instructional design skills. Sigh.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
I spent 5 years there over high school and University. I still have a lot of good friends that live there.
-40° in the winter and mosquitoes the size of your head in summer. It is also the City with the highest violent crime and auto theft rates in Canada.
I’m the same way. I like being cold because I can bundle up and snuggle without getting all hot and sweaty and gross. I like turning the heat on and building a fire. I hate AC. I don’t like bright sun and hot days. Thunderstorms and snowstorms make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Anyway,
I would never move back to Worcester. I lived there from 5 to 21 and I very much hated it. I still go there at least once a week but not for the city. I got there for Spanish class and to pick up my mother and take her out of that pit. I love the rest of the state, west of Worcester.
I will also never move back to Plattsburgh NY. I can’t believe I used to enjoy visiting that place when I was a kid. The only high points of Pburgh are my sister and her family and the Akwasasne casino (which isn’t even in Pburgh). The place is gorgeous but it’s a dump and boring as hell - and this is coming from someone who doesn’t like city life!
I don’t think I could ever leave the Northeast without a vicious fight. I love it here. I feel right when I’m here.