# Which climate? Always hot? Or always cold? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650 "2016-01-30T13:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/1 "2016-01-30T13:29:19Z")
You can choose a place that is always just below freezing or you can choose a place that’s always just above 90. In this scenario, the cost of maintaining and running heating or AC in your home, will be free of charge. Which do you choose? ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/2 "2016-01-30T13:52:07Z")
No sweating, no evil stinging things, no lawn mowing: cold, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/3 "2016-01-30T13:56:54Z")
I’ll take the tropics. Living in a place with no plants would be horrible. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/4 "2016-01-30T13:57:19Z")
I loathe being cold and everything that accompanies it; wearing too many clothes, shoveling and scraping the car, slipping on ice. Nope, nope, nope. You don’t have to shovel heat. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/5 "2016-01-30T14:07:21Z")
Hot. I hate it, but I can tolerate it longer than cold. It doesn’t really make sense, it’s easier to stay warm than cold. I could just put on lots of layers and go outside, you can’t do much to cool yourself off, but I still hate the cold more than the heat. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/6 "2016-01-30T14:15:44Z")
I live in south Texas, and I take my vacations in the winter, to avoid temperatures dropping into the 50s. It can’t get hot enough for me, and I love it here when it is over 100. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/7 "2016-01-30T14:19:09Z")
Always cold, hands down. Hot makes me feel sluggish and exhausted. Cold makes me feel energized. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/8 "2016-01-30T14:33:25Z")
I’m one of those weirdos who likes the cold and snow and ice and the occasional blizzard, so I go cold. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/9 "2016-01-30T14:36:59Z")
I like the tropics JUST fine, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/10 "2016-01-30T15:01:02Z")
If I absolutely have to choose, then I’d go with “Always Hot”. I hate the heat, but there are many things which are just plain difficult to do when it’s cold- like house maintenance, that sort of thing. I guess if it’s always hot I could just get a pool… ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/11 "2016-01-30T15:04:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m one of those weirdos who likes the cold and snow and ice and the occasional blizzard, so I go cold. You definitely picked the right place to live. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/12 "2016-01-30T15:10:44Z")
Bring on the heat. It wouldn’t make me sad at all if I was never cold again. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/13 "2016-01-30T15:20:51Z")
Cold. I love sweaters and boots and layers. I don’t mind snow chores. And my asthma loves cold, dry weather. Also, hot weather makes me feel anxious and jittery, and I hate feeling sweaty. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/14 "2016-01-30T15:41:45Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > I loathe being cold and everything that accompanies it; wearing too many clothes, shoveling and scraping the car, slipping on ice. Nope, nope, nope. You don’t have to shovel heat. Hey, that’s my line–thanks for saving me the trouble of typing it! 🙂 This, 110%. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/15 "2016-01-30T15:42:22Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > You definitely picked the right place to live. Honestly, it’s really not all that bad here. My wife is from Buffalo, and she kind of chuckles at what we consider a snowfall here. I think some place like Minneapolis or farther north would be more my style. It still gets way too hot here during the summers–they’re brutal. People seem to forget how hot and humid Chicago is in the summer. Chicago is not what I would consider a cold city. To me, it’s similar to New York City in climate. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/16 "2016-01-30T15:44:46Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Honestly, it’s really not all that bad here. My wife is from Buffalo, and she kind of chuckles at what we consider a snowfall here. I think some place like Minneapolis or farther north would be more my style. It still gets way too hot here during the summers–they’re brutal. Until very recently I lived about a 100 miles south of you, wayyyy too cold for me. I miss the culture in my old university town, but FL is so much warmer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/17 "2016-01-30T15:46:48Z")
Define ‘hot’. How hot? What kind of hot? Define ‘cold’. Note that I moved from L.A. to just below the Canadian border. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/18 "2016-01-30T15:48:07Z")
Definitely cold. I find I adapt to cold weather easy–15 minutes and I don’t even realize it’s cold. Hot weather, on the other hand, stays hot forever when I’m in it. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/19 "2016-01-30T15:51:01Z")
Always cold, hands down. I really, really hate the heat - the sweat, the sluggishness, the stagnant air, sticking my head in the freezer just to feel cool . . . winter is actually my favorite season. I can’t imagine living in a place that doesn’t get snow. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650/20 "2016-01-30T15:53:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Define ‘hot’. How hot? What kind of hot? Define ‘cold’. > > Note that I moved from L.A. to just below the Canadian border. Did you not read the OP? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-climate-always-hot-or-always-cold/744650.md?page=2)