I’ve lived in a lot of different climates over a lifetime from the Yukon Territory to southern Arizona. I liked the very mild climate of coastal southern California but it was too damn crowded for comfort! Now I’m liking the cool-temperate four-season climate of central BC. We all dream of white sand beaches in the tropics for vacations but for year around living where do you prefer?
If I had my druthers, I’d want to live in southern California…but up a bit into the hills, maybe the 3,000 foot altitude zone.
The cute little tourist town of Julian, in the back country of San Diego County, is actually very pleasant. Way too crowded, but as for climate, it’s my personal ideal.
I had a training course in Pittsburgh one summer, and adored it. Two of the best weeks of my life. But…Pittsburgh has serious winters, with real gobs of snow.
Other than that, I’ve never been much of anywhere, ever!
Either a Köppen Csb or Cfb . 
Cape Town or the Garden Route
Which happens to be in the same ballpark as Southern Cali stretching into NorCal, actually.
Michigan’s west coast, anywhere from Muskegon to Traverse City. Summers are cooler, winters milder. A bit more snow than other places but otherwise ideal.
For the most part, I like just where I am. If I could eliminate the summer humidity, I’d probably declare it to be perfect. I like 4 seasons, I don’t mind some snow, but I really hate when it’s oppressively humid. I’d consider moving a bit farther north - I think I can deal with extremes of cold better than excessive heat. But we moved to this area 10 years ago because this is where we wanted to be for a variety of reasons, climate being one factor.
I love winter and cooler weather. Hate heat and humidity. I’ve been told I would love the Pacific Northwest. I enjoyed the U.K. when I visited there. Anywhere it’s like Chicago has been this spring and summer. I’ve had the best summer in about 10 years here. I live very close to the lake and it’s been about 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area almost every day this summer. In the 70’s during the day and low 60’s at night. I’ve run the a/c I think a total of 4 days so far this year.
I tend to get Seasonal Affective Disorder in the summer. A couple summers ago we had a heat wave and drought, and I pretty much cried all through the month of July. That summer made me want to move, this summer makes me want to stay forever. It’s been just gorgeous, and of course the weird lizard people who live here for some reason (really, even when it’s really hot it’s only really hot for 2-3 months of the whole year) have been complaining a lot about how cold it’s been this year. I couldn’t be happier!
Nitpick - Michigan can’t have coasts, only shores.
Cold, rainy, dark, and damp.
The one thing I do not miss about the Mid-Atlantic coast of the US are the hot, bright, humid summers.
I’m the same way. I start hating life when it gets much above 80°. I also much prefer cloudy skies to the sun.
I’ve lived in Portland, OR for ten years, and the climate is ok. But this summer has been a bad one. The average high in July and August is supposed to be 81°, but there have been few days below that this year; we’ve had 18 days (so far) above 90°. Ugh.
I would like to go farther north, but there’s that thing about needing a job. I like snow in the winter, and here we don’t really get any - maybe once or twice each winter we’ll get a little bit, which melts by afternoon. Every five or six years we’ll get an actual “snow storm” of a few inches, which sticks around for a few days and completely paralyzes the city.
Anyway, to answer the question, my idea of paradise is Juneau, AK. The average high in the summer is 64°, and the all-time record high is 90°. It snows quite a bit in the winter, but without being excessively cold. The sun almost never makes an appearance. Perfect!
One with 4 seasons, but with mild winters.
Actual summer and actual winter. About 25 Celsius is fine with summer, it doesn’t need to go beyond that. I love the winters here. Snow, ice and -10 is fun to cycle to work in. And I mean fun as in actually fun, not sarcastically. Having said that, I’ve only cycled one winter so far and that was considered mild, with only a few weeks down at around -10. Let’s see if I am so enthusiastic when it is -20.
I grew up in New England, with definite seasons. I like weather that does something.
Hawaii would be my ideal. I like 72F and sunny year round!
I like Denver’s climate a lot: there are four distinct seasons, and it’s only ridiculously hot or cold a few days out of the year. If I could change one thing, it would be for the humidity levels to get into the double digits during the wintertime – but otherwise I’m happy.
I grew up in the Sonoran Desert. Hated it passionately. Couldn’t really go outside for much of the year – you dash from the air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car to go directly to the air-conditioned mall. I sunburn easily, and I’ve danced on the edge of heatstroke once or twice.
I moved to Flagstaff, which is about 7000 feet up a mountain, for college. It’s a good 20-25 degrees cooler than Phoenix at all times, and gets enough snow for skiing. I liked it better, but it was still terribly dry there, and my skin and hair don’t appreciate that sort of thing.
Now I live i New England. There are four whole seasons here, and plenty of water. I much prefer this to anything I ran into on the other end of the country. And, having been in both a place where it’s 100F in May and a place where it wasn’t really Christmas until I was blocked into my apartment by a 3.5’ snowdrift, I get to needle the locals no matter what season they’re complaning about.
Cool & damp. Northern England would be perfect.
A climate of tolerance and respect. And no snow.
We live on the Coast of Mexico now, minutes away from the beach, and I feel like an ungrateful jerk for saying it but it’s not my ideal climate. I’d much rather be in the cold with snow, much rather be breaking ice to get to water, than to feel like I’m moving through liquid sky. (Humidity.) I guess to me home is where you get warm, not stay hot.
Very hot, is my preference. I’m now living in south Texas, and I like summer better than winter. The heat index is often over 110 in summer and always over 100. I only run my AC in summer, set on 85, about 6-8 hours a day, never overnight. I lived in Indonesia in a place with no AC nor even a fan.
Warm, baby, warm.
I was born and raised and still live in Houston, TX. I’ve spent many years living in parts of the world not too terribly far from the equator. Anything under 70F isn’t fit for humans to live in.