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Yes, with the caveat that the combination of weather and local adaptations is more important than weather alone. For example, the heat is worse in Florida than it is in New York City, but in Florida you can drive everywhere in an air-conditioned car and experience the heat for only a minute or two each day while in NYC you'll probably have to either walk or wait for mass transit long enough to become miserable even though the weather isn't as hot.
It seems that unless you can live somewhere with perfect weather like parts of the west coast of the US, you're probably best off looking for the most car-friendly place to live and avoiding the weather entirely.
Manhattan at the height of a humid heat wave is hell on earth. Just the smells, alone, are enough to qualify. Still a cool place to visit.
It depends really. If I lived somewhere where natural disasters were a common occurrence then I probably would. Luckily I live in the UK which, while not great in other ways, has a temperate climate. That said, if the south gets too much warmer then I am tempted to move to Scotland. I don't cope well in temperatures above 19 Celsius. It would be one of several reasons though, not the overriding factor.
Life is a rich tapestry and everyone is different but that’s 66 degrees F and that’s legit pretty cold to me from California. No one’s right or wrong here, that’s just so interesting to me.
Edit: typing is hard, apparently
UK's pretty bloody humid though, and we don't really have air con.
That’s super fair, we were at a theme park and it was 23c and 90% humidity yesterday and it was pretty gross.
Damn 19C! My apartment is 24 right now and it feels cozy. When I bake it gets to 27. Without heat in the winter it hovers around 16 inside.
I'd consider going somewhere with more extreme day/night cycles like the Northwest territories, but within Canada I'm basically happy where I am. I like the super long days in the summer and I'm also ok living in the dark most of the winter as long as I can stay active.
It would depend on how much I liked my job, friends, and family and how much I hated the weather.
Yes. That was one of the reasons for my move.
I'd move to the south of my country just to escape the summer heat.
Yes. Totally a factor. I couldn't live in places with snow. A holiday maybe, but not a life
As someone who lives in a sunny place, and knows how much it impacts my general well-being when it's not sunny, I would absolutely move for the weather. If I lived somewhere known for being grey and rainy, I could guarantee I'd have depression. I need to live in a sunny place to function.
I havent lived in a grey rainy area (unless monsoon counts). But that sou ds like heaven to me.
Unless you live in an extreme snow, flood, fire or tornado prone region, I'd probably think you're crazy if that was your only reason to move. But if weather is just one of many reasons, like job, lifestyle, housing, travel... I get it.
Move. I moved to a country for work. It was miserable, and in turn, so was I. Moved back to Australia. Heaven.
However, I'm finding the humidity is too much for me here, so have my eye on New Zealand.
New Zealand is option 2 for me too, but australia and NZ feel like they are completely dosconnected to the rest of the world. Even tho I got some cousins there.
Depends a lot of the severity of the bad weather. I wouldn't live in antartica or cities that are constantly being hit by earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. That would be a big reason for me to leave everything behind.
But if its just like a mild weather that I am not too happy about, then I wouldn't want to lose friends and or family because of that.
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