Hawaii.
This is bizarre, though.
Today I was driving around and noticed there’s no snow anywhere. No snow. In Ontario. In THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY. That is not natural.
It’ll be mild tomorrow. Mild the day after that. Mild the day after that. This is very strange indeed. It should be brutally cold this time of year.
I think all your snow went to Colorado. NPR was talking about 10 feet of snow between now and the end of the week. 10 FEET!!! ffs…
I choose Canada. I’m practically in Mexico already, and while I am, yes, enjoying and appreciating the beautiful, mild winter weather, the summer is so extreme that…fark it. I’d rather have four seasons. And I love the PNW, so Vancouver would be fine. Or some outer island and I can be a fishwife.
Agreed. I well remember bone-chilling Januarys from when I lived in Toronto. Oddly enough, I’m in Toronto for a few days–it’s not bone-chilling, and there is no snow. And it will indeed be mild for the next few days. This is definitely not natural.
You’d best make up your mind, it gettin’ crowded.
But you’re very far away from me. I could practically walk to Windsor.
Wait, wait…what’s getting crowded? Vancouver? Yar…incountry, I’d prefer the Seattle area though, so that’s kind of cheating.
Don’t tell me the islands are getting crowded… :eek:
Hrm. I’ve been over the dateline <accidentally on purpose> and I’m pretty sure we were more than 100 miles from mainland AK.
And don’t dare count the Aleutians as the US. Hell, even Adak shut down! Nothing but condoms and beer cans in the forts at Dutch Harbor anymore.
I guess I’d go to Mexico, since it’s only a mile or so from here. There’s virtually no difference. I’d still be shopping in the same stores and watching the same local tv stations. Everyone would still be speaking Spanglish and driving like no traffic laws exist, just like here.
The nearest neighbor to the East is the UK (well, if you don’t count the Canaries). Can I go there? My brother and his family live there and I was born and raised there, so no big adjustment.
Otherwise, the Caymans; my dad lives there and Grand Cayman is lovely (and warm), earthquakes notwithstanding.
Do technicalities count? If so, Denmark.
Not that Ontario itself has no snow, just that you have no snow in Southwestern Ontario. We’ve got a slightly less than normal amount here in Eastern Ontario, but yeah, I’ll take these temperatures (zero to minus 10) at this time of year anytime.
Oh, and to answer the OP, I wouldn’t balk at all about living in the US.
Or France - Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Still, I’ve got family in the US so that would be fine for me.
Mexico is warm and colorful. Tequila, beaches, enchiladas, beautiful women, good music, and low cost of living.
Canada is cold, grey, and I don’t need to go any further than that.
Cuba is beautiful and would be an absolute paradise if you could undo all those years of communism.
Worst place on the planet to live? That’s a tough one. Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Gaza, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, North Korea?
The Canaries are further away and way south, off the coast of Africa. The Azores is maybe what you’re thinking of?
It’s 65 degrees here today, and yes, that IS ridiculously cold!!!
Oh–I wouldn’t want to go to Canada. 87 degrees today here, so there.
Fascinating idea for a thread. Thanks.
I live in the US, and I’d pick Mexico in a heartbeat. I toured the area around San Miguel de Allende as a minor celebrity in high school and I’m still in love with the country and its people 12 years later.
Thanks to the US Air Force, I’ve taken up a semi-permanent residence in Iraq (18 months in-country in the last 37 months), and of the countries that border Iraq I’d have to pick Turkey, mostly because I know much more about it than the others, and it’s more tolerable to Americans.
Worldwide, I’d probably put Jamaica at the top (another country I just fell in love with during a short visit) and maybe Rwanda at the bottom. A lot of countries would be tied for last though.