# What climate would you ideally like to live in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643 "2017-06-22T21:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/1 "2017-06-22T21:56:15Z")
Tropical wet: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tropical-wet](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tropical-wet) Tropical wet/dry: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tropical-wet-and-dry](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tropical-wet-and-dry) Mediterranean: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/mediterranean](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/mediterranean) Humid subtropical: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/humid-subtropical](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/humid-subtropical) Marine west coast: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/marine-west-coast](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/marine-west-coast) Humid continental: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/humid-continental](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/humid-continental) Subarctic: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/subarctic](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/subarctic) Tundra: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tundra](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/tundra) Ice cap: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/ice-cap](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/ice-cap) Arid: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/arid](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/arid) Semiarid: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/semiarid](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/semiarid) Highland: [https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/highland](https://sites.google.com/site/climatetypes/highland) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/2 "2017-06-22T22:04:13Z")
Hot all year, enough rain to be green. Can be either of the first two. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/3 "2017-06-22T22:10:09Z")
Right where I am - just a few degrees below subarctic. The only change I’d make would be for it to skip the long, cold, muddy spring that happens between the snow melting and it getting warm. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/4 "2017-06-22T23:39:52Z")
No snow, just to start with. Snow is right out. So, I’m gonna have some hot summers. So my next criterion is that it be a dry heat. No thanks to wilting New Orleans summer days! This pretty much says “Mediterranean.” (But…since that’s the climate where I live now, I may only be preferring what I am used to.) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/5 "2017-06-22T23:52:32Z")
I want to live in Costa Rica or parts of the Caribbean. That screams tropical wet/dry. I grew up in Louisiana and lived in New Orleans for a while. I didn’t mind it at the time but humid subtropical summers like New Orleans and Houston have are hotter than Satan’s crotch during a weiner roast. Still, that is better than any place that gets consistent cold and snow like New England where I live now. Sure, the 8 weeks of summer and 5 weeks of Fall are perfectly nice but that still leaves a whole lot of the rest of the year that sucks especially January - April. My absolute nightmare would be some place like the Pacific Northwest though. Sort of cold and rainy with overcast skies does not agree at all with my sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Battye](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sandra_battye/32/552_2.png) [@Sandra\_Battye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandra_Battye)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/6 "2017-06-23T04:11:01Z")
Favorite is Mediterranaen, followed by semi arid. I hate humidity and/or snow and cold! ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/7 "2017-06-23T07:03:09Z")
I’m the sole vote for “Humid subtropical.” Maybe I categorized it incorrectly. A few years ago I tried to determine my perfect year-round climate, and I got Buenos Aires, Argentina. Plus, the culture is pleasing to me, so that’s where I’d go if somebody told me I had to pick a drastically different place to move. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/8 "2017-06-23T09:36:52Z")
I’m getting too old for four seasons, especially the cold ones. Give me tropical wet/dry please. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/10 "2017-06-23T10:01:51Z")
The ‘cool summer’ subtype of humid continental, or the warmer subarctic areas. I’ve lived in both. I enjoy both. I’m not so much digging that the summers are getting less cool, which edges me toward subarctic - I can deal with the harder winters better than the harder summers. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/11 "2017-06-23T10:06:00Z")
[Mediterranean with mountain elements](http://www.aoiz.es/) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/12 "2017-06-23T11:13:03Z")
Which one is Santa Barbara? I think further south it’s Mediterranean, further north it’s Marine maybe. But Santa Barbara is in the Goldilocks zone. Not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, maybe a little too dry. But I like dry. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/13 "2017-06-23T12:08:42Z")
I suppose the uppermost end of “humid subtropical” (with well-defined seasons and extended mild fall weather) appeals the most. Not into water rationing, which lets out much of the “marine west coast”, semiarid, arid etc. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/14 "2017-06-23T13:11:31Z")
Subarctic. What can I say? My ancestors were Siberian. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/15 "2017-06-23T13:42:05Z")
I’ll stay here in NC, thank you. Humid Subtropical. I don’t mind the heat and I appreciate the changing seasons. BTW, there are a few islands near and including Java that aren’t highlighted on any of those maps. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/16 "2017-06-23T14:07:17Z")
I voted subarctic. What I really want is inland Southern Norway back when we actually got snow and cold weather for a good couple of months in winter, but had nice cool summers. Not like now when we’re lucky if there’s a couple of weeks of snow in between periods of slush and summers threaten to become alternating weeks of too hot and too wet. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/17 "2017-06-23T14:22:04Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Hot all year, enough rain to be green. Can be either of the first two. Exactly this. I put tropical wet because I actually like a good rain/thunderstorm. But give me hot any, and every, day of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/18 "2017-06-23T14:34:18Z")
Why isn’t temperate maritime an option here? Of the options on offer I agree with **Kamino**. I much prefer cold winters to hot summers. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/19 "2017-06-23T17:07:46Z")
Mediterranean. Naturally I live in Chicago, with an extreme version of humid continental ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/20 "2017-06-23T18:48:12Z")
I voted for “highland” but that term means different things to different people, even among meteorologists. To me it means Köppen Climate Classification Cfb or Cwb. They are characterized by relatively mild weather year-round even though some areas have distinct warm and cool seasons with a modest amount of snow in some places. Those climate types are pretty rare in the US but are found in a few places like Volcano HI and Beckley WV. They include such world cities as Bogota, Mexico City, Nairobi, and Canberra. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643/21 "2017-06-23T22:03:32Z")
I chose Mediterranean, but Amalfi Coast Mediterranean, not California Mediterranean. These humid NYC summers are really grinding me down. But frankly I’d rather be someplace with no humidity that stays cool all year round and never goes above 75 degrees or so. I’d grow roses and apples and be happy there. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-climate-would-you-ideally-like-to-live-in/789643.md?page=2)