# Where is your imagined winter snowbird destination? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785 "2017-09-08T05:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/41 "2017-09-10T03:56:31Z")
I’m wondering if it might not be best to just take 2 or 3 months, Jan to March, say and go somewhere else, without buying real estate. I wonder if you can sublet an apt in Rio for 3 months a year. Or it would be nice to work your way through the carribean year by year. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/42 "2017-09-10T19:17:58Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Are there people who do the opposite? Like stay in their home town during the winter, and then go somewhere cold in the summer? Cuz I’d like to do that. (I hope I’m not ruining the hypothetical, I just want to know if anyone does that) In Austin, most of the great outdoor events, especially free ones, happen in the middle of the hot, muggy summer. And then there’s the drought with its dry crunchy vegetation and fire hazard. The mountains for me, although my impression is that summer is the rainy season. Mind you, this is one of many impossible dreams. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/43 "2017-09-11T00:23:03Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > How about any votes for Baltimore or VA. VA beach? Yeah, me. If I were to leave New England it’d be for one of the Virginias or Carolinas. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/44 "2017-09-11T00:44:24Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > In Austin, most of the great outdoor events, especially free ones, happen in the middle of the hot, muggy summer. And then there’s the drought with its dry crunchy vegetation and fire hazard. The mountains for me, although my impression is that summer is the rainy season. > > Mind you, this is one of many impossible dreams. I just absolutely HATE hot weather. The only thing I like to do in the summer time is swim (and I LOVE to do that), but I don’t have the opportunity to do so a lot. ☹ And while I love my hometown, from June until September, it gets disgusting around here. It’s so hot and humid you have to leave your windows closed — otherwise it just lets in the heat. (The AC is on 24/7) So I’d like to be able to go somewhere nice and cold for just those three months. Would I be called a sunbird then? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/45 "2017-09-11T18:58:01Z")
Probably Costa Rica. I love the Caribbean, but not sure I’d want to deal with those pesky hurricanes… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/46 "2017-09-11T21:56:23Z")
As much as I’d rather not live in Florida, that’s where I’d want to live for around a month and a half between mid-January and February. I _like_ a little snow so I’d stay elsewhere until I was sick of it. Any other place I can think of with more stuff to do, it can get cold which defeats the purpose. I’m specifically thinking of the southwest in that manner, since the cities are certainly temperate but the mountains are snow-liable. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swedish\_Viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@The\_Swedish\_Viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swedish_Viking)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785/47 "2017-09-11T23:48:11Z")
I am from Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe and I spend 6 months (the summer) in Sweden and 6 months (the winter) in **Thailand.** Well, we dont’t have six months winter in Sweden. It’s a matter of fact we normally don’t have any winter or snow at all in the south part of the country. But we have far less sunshine hours in December to compare with June when we have sunshine all 24 hours a day aka “midnightsun”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-your-imagined-winter-snowbird-destination/795785.md?page=2)