i_hate_wisconsin unhinged a 50 degree temperature difference in two days is fucking bullshit i need to move to a more temperate climate 070328 ... unhinged that and it's far away from you 070328 ... unhinged it is april and it feels like 18 outside it is supposed to be spring assholes i am tired of paying for heat 070404 ... bird if i could trade your weather for mine, i would we may hit 100 by next week i've lived here all my life and i still hate the heat 070404 ... no reason i moved somewhere with a more temperate climate and have gotten sick way way more than i ever did before i don't know how much they're related, but it's something to consider 070404 ... mcdougall Minnesota has the same colder than it should be this time of year weather right now too. It’s aggravating but I’ll take unusually cold weather over record-breaking amounts of pollen, which is what I would be experiencing had I not moved north. 070404 ... birdmad i can warm up from being cold i actually loved the winter i spent in the Missouri woods with a non-stop month of freezing rain that turned the ground into semi-crunchy mud, but there is no worse exclamation to a crappy-hot 111-F day like feeling the grit on your teeth if you get caught outside during a several-hundred feet high dust_storm but for the money and the uncertainty of starting all over in a whole new place at my age, i would move to portland OR, Vancouver BC, or Seattle 070404 ... misstree portland is an amazing place to start over i worry that too many people are doing it (although i'm one of them)... it seems like most of this town is non-native, people drawn by some siren call and kept by the beauty of the reality of it. the weather is amazing, especially with two mild winters in a row, but there definitely is a higher sickness rate, especially helped along by the amount of mold in the air. it's worth it to me, though. 070405 ... unhinged yes, i have been thinking about the northwest, specifically portland. friends of a friend moved out there and were back in town to pick up the rest of their things and had nothing but good things to say. they signed a year lease; with their nomadic tendencies that is a big deal and a huge endorsement. hardly anywhere is worse than the great lakes basin for mold and pollen. or so the doctors say. no, i definitely wouldn't like the desert either. i melt in the heat and i am allergic to the sun. but, i am sick of cold. i have scar_tissue the size of a fist in my right shoulder blade that does not like the damp coldness of late fall through early summer in wisconsin. this february was painfully wretched. my violin playing career needs me to move somewhere that the weather doesn't put me out of commission for at least a month. yeah, i'm quite used to mold and pollen and the sickness that accompanies them. there really aren't four seasons in wisconsin anyways. and it will get upwards of 100 here in july/august compounded by the fact that many older houses and buildings here don't have air conditioning including the house i currently live in. i haven't ever been to the desert, but that kind of heat near a lake makes it very hard to breathe indeed. so i was thinking of the northwest. i hear you guys have a narrower temperature range. and i think you guys also are more up my sociopolitical alley too. especially in the mid midwest, people are too conservative, narrow_minded. there are the pockets. in wisconsin being milwaukee and madison but for the most part, a conservative state. i was surprised it went blue in the last election. not so suprised that ohio went red. anyways, i especially hate the weather in wisconsin. fall isn't long enough and where i live not pretty enough. spring is literally only a matter of weeks before the unbearable summer heat sets in. no getting used to weather here because it changes so quickly with freakish days of unseasonable warmth or cold depending on the season thrown in. extreme heat or cold isn't so bad if mother nature eases you into it. not here. one day it's 80 the next it's 30. blah. yes, i hate wisconsin indeed. 070405 ... misstree i'm not sure on the pollen, that area might have us beat, but i assure you, the only places in the country that come close to our mold count are the swamp areas, florida and louisiana and suchnot... things are green here all year round, with ferns and mosses blooming during the winter, and the mold takes advantage of that as well... this area is a rare climate, temperate rainforest, and portland itself is smack in the middle of a valley, so yes, it does rain nearly every day, though usually not for long. 's what makes us bloom so much. one serious word of warning while considering portland, is that the huge influx of people to this area has left a pretty badly crippled job economy. even tech types don't make very good money, and there's a lot of displaced professionals of various sorts, so unless you're willing to settle for minimum wage (though it is higher than the rest of the country at $7.80), you might be in for a rough landing. we do get all four seasons, though, at least sort of. spring, summer, fall, and drizzling eternal gloom. beats ice and nose-severing cold, though. 070405 ... unhinged usually but right now it's 72 degrees at it's 10pm and there is about to be the most beautiful thunderstorm this weekend it was actually spring. i wore sandals to work today. the serial sunshine has made me much happier than i have been lately. go sunshine. 070422 ... mcdougall verona by day fond du lac by night, back home in the morning. i hope i don't get stuck in the rain. 070523 ... unhinged the muggy humidity of summer is here with no spring to really show for it blah fuck_that 070524 what's it to you? who go blather from