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.
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.
Yeah, me. If I were to leave New England it’d be for one of the Virginias or Carolinas.
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?
Probably Costa Rica. I love the Caribbean, but not sure I’d want to deal with those pesky hurricanes…
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.
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”.