People from the hot regions of America, do you like to vacation in cold places just so you can escape the heat?

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1. On the contrary, I try to make an effort to only go to cold places when they’re not cold.

   I get why snowbirds do what they do, but I can’t understand why anyone would do the inverse.

2. I live in a warmer region on purpose. I hate cold weather.

3. I dont, i live for the heat.

4. Up here in Maine we frequently get southerners coming up to our coast. The beaches are still warm but without the really intense heat and humidity farther south. I imagine that plays a role.

5. No way!

6. No I hate being cold!

7. Kind of. I’ve visited Anchorage, Seattle, and San Diego around the summer to escape Alabama.

   Went to Anchorage around May, never really got warmer than 70. Went to Sesttle in September, don’t remember it getting warmer than maybe 75. Went to San Diego in May or June and it mostly stayed in the 70s and got really cool at night.

8. Visit a place in the 80s when it’s over 100° at home

9. Yes! Live in AZ now. Will be moving to a colder climate when we retire…

   Today it is going to be 95F (35C) here. Fine for Summer but March is not even over yet.

10. FUCK no.

11. Yes, I do! But very heavily influenced by my upbringing.

    I am from a cold and snowy place, grew up skiing. Christmas memories are heavy on the snowcast.

    Then moved to Las Vegas. Now I can’t wait to get to the snow once christmas vacation hits. I get depressed when autumn comes around in the north and it is still too hot for boots in the desert.

    I also took a vacation to Alaska in June when it was 107 here and 54 the morning we arrived in Anchorage- it felt fucking great

12. Yep. The first time I saw snow I buried myself in it like a drunk polar bear. I’m a hot natured person so summers are basically hell for me. When I lived in Colorado for four years I was so happy. There were SEASONS. Yes it got hot but there was an actual fall to look forward to. FALL. I LOVE FALL. WHY DID I MOVE BACK HERE??

13. I travel to less hot places during the summer, yes. California weather is very ideal in the summer. It’s so perfect.

14. Yes and it’s amazing. My parents always did this growing up. It was so nice being able to do stuff outside during the day. Now that I’m on my own, I need to start doing this (but money).

15. I hate hot weather. Wisconsin is too hot.

16. The happiest I’ve ever been was walking out of LaGuardia into a 40F rainy day and feeling genuinely *cold* for the first time in 8 years. I felt alive.

17. I had a wonderful time in Scotland and Ireland in July where it felt like the temperature never broke 60. Coming home to hot-ass Virginia was a shock.

18. I will do Colorado or Minnesota in the summer on occasion. I have done Minnesota and Ohio in the winter before.

    Never again.

19. No but I am planning on moving someplace colder soon because I fucking hate the heat.

20. Dang right we do! But we who live in the hot parts of California–and by square mileage, that would be *most* of it–do not have to go far. In fact, we don’t even have to cross state lines.

    The California coast = God turning on the air conditioning. Out-of-state tourists complain it’s not warm like Florida. Okay dude, but that’s like a *feature*, not a bug, mmmmm’kay?

    The Sierras = not as cool while the sun is up, but still a long sight better than roasting your ass off down the mountain where it’s well north of 100. Sure, it’s a dry heat, but it sucks just the same. Why not go to where 90 is considered a hot-ass day, and you have to put on long pants and a light jacket at night?

    Edit: when I lived in Las Vegas, day trips to Mt. Charleston, and weekend trips to Flagstaff, were common. It could be 116 in Vegas but it would be 85 in Flagstaff. Absolute sweet relief.

21. I work at a ski shop in Colorado, I’ve definitely seen a lot more Floridians and Texans coming in this year, this was one of our busier spring breaks, lots of southerners visit.

22. No.
    After moving from the northeast to a “hot” state where it never snows I’ve become cold intolerant.
    I don’t intentionally seek out cold places to visit but I’m also not opposed to visiting cold places.

23. When I was a college student in Colorado, the apartment complex would get “sunbird” tenants from Arizona over the summer.
    Weather of either extreme will send you indoors, or packing.

24. Fellow Wisconsinite here with a family condo in Florida. It’s miserable 2-3 months a year in both places, one is ungodly cold and dry while the other is ungodly hot and humid. Yes I’m aware of August in Wisconsin, but if you visit Florida in August you’ll never complain about a Wisconsin summer again.

25. Many Georgians go to Pigeon Forge (in the mountains) or various beaches like Myrtle Beach (in S Carolina) in the summer.

26. The beauty of living in the Phoenix area, drive 2-3 hours north you’re at 7000 feet, a totally different ecosystem, and 20 degrees cooler.

27. Sometimes. I live in Phoenix (which is basically surrounded-ish by mountains). It is really common here to drive to the mountains to escape the heat. I am really grateful to live here because you can drive an hour and a half and be in a totally different climate. When I lived in the Midwest, there was no escaping the cold without a plane ticket

28. I live in Phoenix. I don’t understand why anybody would go someplace hot from here. If they need air conditioners, I’m not going, at least at that time of year. I can be hot at home for free.

    My favorite place to vacation? The PNW. The opposite, must refreshing relief from the desert isn’t someplace COLD, it’s someplace WET. Free water from the sky, and green! Misty mountains and waterfalls and trees! ❤️

29. Hell no, we have these things called water parks. I don’t own enough cold weather clothing to go anywhere cold.