Is it common for people in hotter regions(like Florida ) to visit colder regions during summer?

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1. Yes.

2. Yes. It’s also common for retirees to split their time between a southern place in the winter and up north in the summer.

3. We get a lot of Southern tourists in VT midsummer, not fall levels, but higher than you’d think.

4. Not really. Pretty much everyone I know here in Savannah still vacations to places like Florida or the Carribean even in summer, I don’t know anyone who’s going up to, I don’t know, Seattle or Boston for their summer vacations.

5. I’m sure some people would. But more so because their kids are not in school.

   FWIW quite a few of my neighbors go somewhere like Puerto Rico in the summer.

6. Seen a few southern plates while I lived in Maine but still it was mostly Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York plates.

7. Depending on where you are in Florida, some of these “cooler” regions might be warmer than where you are. If you mean going somewhere to escape the heat.

8. My family used to go to New York and Michigan during the summer while living in Kansas, California, and Georgia, but that had more to do with seeing family.

   Visiting the North during Fall and Winter is more common in my experience because some Southerners want a chance to experience proper cold and maybe even snow.

9. I’m from Wisconsin and there are tons of “Snow Birds” who are up here during our gorgeous summers and down in Florida during our horrendous winters.

10. I mostly travel up north in winter because I love seeing snow and feel the cold air. Plus snowboarding is my favorite seasonal activity.

11. Not just in the summer. I ski often at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire and the number of Floridians I talk to on the lifts seems to grow yearly, particularly around spring break (which is still very much the depths of winter up here).

12. I’m from Texas and we go to Estes park in summer. It’s not necessarily cold, but it is usually a good 20-30 degrees cooler

13. Maybe some, but I literally don’t know anyone who does that. We just kinda suffer for half the year.

14. We’re currently considering relocating to a desert area for the school year and returning to our current place (Great Lakes region) for summer. My absolute hope would be to return home to the mountain areas of Idaho, Wyoming or Montana for summers. That wish is further off.

15. Only retirees.

16. Last time I was visiting Florida, there were tons of billboards offering special discounts on Alaskan cruises for Floridians. They specifically noted how great it would be to escape the heat and go to cold weather. My Florida relatives love to visit snowy places and find it very exciting to do snowy activities.

17. Yes. My friend’s retired mom lives in Pennsylvania from May to October and in Florida the rest of the time.

18. Extremely common. Snow birds

19. Almost all of the US is warm to hot in summer but not all the US is cold in winter.

    I grew up in FL and its pretty popular for Floridians to visit snowy places in winter to experience snow for at least a week or so.

    But in summer, you just go to the beach. You cool off in the water not in the air.

20. Yes. June is vacation month in Tucson. It’s a very common time for people to take vacations to cooler places.

21. Yes. In Florida there is a whole subculture of retired people who live down there in the winter and somewhere up north all summer. They call themselves “snowbirds”

22. I live in Seattle, and we do have a lot of people visiting our city during the summertime. For many people, they land in Seattle and then take a cruise ship up to Alaska. But there are also several festivals and conventions that occur during the summer. Or people visit to go camping and hiking. The Pacific Northwest region has a very outdoorsy culture, and every summer I always meet someone from Phoenix or Tucson or Vegas trying to escape the heat.

    But they pay for it. Downtown hotels are often double or triple the price during the “cruise ship season” vs. during the rainy winter weather.

23. Yes. We get tons of Floridians visiting Michigan every summer.

    It’s like they are instinctively drawn to peninsulas.

24. Yup. Maine has tons of tourists that do exactly that. We also have a lot of snowbirds who live in the south during the winter months and Maine in summer.

25. You get this within California itself. If you’re in hot-ass Bakersfield, or even the toasty San Fernando Valley, *all* you wanna do is hit the beach and chill. It’ll be north of 100 where you are, but it’ll be 75 over at the beach.

    The Southern California coast (like if you’re within sight of the ocean) does not have a Mediterranean climate, contrary to popular belief. It is technically ‘Oceanic Mediterranean.’ In Europe you have to go all the way over to Portugal to experience this. I think Cornwall in the UK has a similar thing going too? Maybe also the Atlantic-facing western coast of Morocco?

    We also like to hit the high Sierras, in large part for the same reason. It’ll be well north of 100 down in the hot-ass Valley, but you get up past the 6,000 foot mark and it’ll be in the low-mid 80s by day, and downright chilly by night. It feels nice.

26. I’d rather visit northern cities during the summer than the winter! But I’m not a native Floridian.

    Something I have noticed is a significant number of “native Floridians” do not travel. I’ve met so many people that the farthest they’ve gone from their hometown is 2-3 hours. Obviously this isn’t as common in the big cities, but I was blown away by the complete lack of travel in the medium sized town I work in.