Would you rather live somewhere warm year round or somewhere with 4 proper seasons that gets cold and hot?

[Holla]

Regardless of where you currently live where would you rather live if you had the choice?

I currently live somewhere that has a proper 4 seasons. Summers are hot and winters are freezing. I’ve decided that I would not want to live somewhere that is always warm. I visited Hawaii for two weeks in the past and while it was nice to be warm and hot every single day in the middle of February I wouldn’t want that year round.

I love the changing of the seasons so much. It’s like always having something to look forward to. Plus even winter which is typically the least liked season by many has its own beauty and unique activities that can’t be done in climates that are always hot. Not to mention Christmastime without snow just isn’t as magical to me. Sure it has many things about it that aren’t fun (it’s cold, roads are slippery, shovelling is a pain etc) but it’s only for a couple months and the good things about it make it worthwhile in my opinion anyways.

 

[Firesquids]

I really like the different seasons, it breaks up life so time feels like it's not getting stagnant , if that makes sense. Lol

 

[Rio_]

I love having all four seasons, and Winter and Fall are my favourites, so living somewhere warm all year wouldn't be ideal for me

 

[BetsySundrop]

I love having 4 proper seasons! Year-round warm sounds nice, but i think I'd get really tired of it, lol. Best things about the 4 seasons -

Winter -
The cold! I love it! It's the perfect temp inside for sleeping - 58 degrees!

The bugs die! It gets cold and freezes out all the mosquitoes etc. Early winter - christmas, cookies and cocoa, all that snuggly stuff. Late winter - it's a cozy time to plan that year's garden/outdoor projects. Outdoor fun in snow and ice,

Spring -
That awesome feeling of the world waking up. Birds, flowers, the grass growing again, gardening, and time to get the pool ready for summer.

Summer - omg everything is growing, grass cutting, fireworks, swimming, garden herbs and veggies, berry picking, and late summer - figs!

Fall - i dont think i could live without fall. The leaves so many colors, the change in the air from hot and muggy to cool and crisp, fall clothes are my favorite clothes , the earlier sunsets, pumpkins, halloween, Thanksgiving. Plants and bugs dying and going dormant, but in a fun, spooky way.

Yeah i have to have the 4 proper seasons.

 

[Envy]

I actually just moved away from a warm place (although not as bad as Florida) all year round for a place with four seasons. Climate may not have been the only factor in this move, but it was a factor for sure.

I don't know what it is, but my mental health is tied to the seasons. I couldn't live somewhere warm all year around. That would depress the heck out of me. I know how much climate change in my past home location was taking its toll on me. It's the south so the winters were never as bad as the ones up north, but they at least used to be more consistently chillier and have a decent snow or two every year. Now they'd become warm a lot of the time with only a dusting of snow most years.

For me that upsets the balance. If winter isn't winter, then there's no reason to look forward to Spring, because instead of Spring becoming nicer, when it's already warm, it just becomes hot and humid.

I had to get away. It was taking such a toll on my mental health.

 

[.: Meri :.]

I'm really not a fan of any weather warmer than 73F, so somewhere with four seasons is by far my choice here ahaha. Honestly that's another reason I've been looking forward to my family moving up north so much; the seasons here in North Carolina are blurring together more and more. Snow in wintertime used to be a given when I was little—I even had a white Christmas or two—but lately we're lucky if we get snow at all, because years can go by without any now. Spring comes a month early, summer feels a lot longer than three months, sometimes we don't start getting autumn temperatures until after Halloween... I don't like it at all.

I'd even rather live somewhere that skewed colder year round just for the sake of milder summers. It's too hot here right now to go outside and because of that it's a lot easier for me to get depressed in the summertime.

 

[JemAC]

I'm not a fan of the extreme weather, like heat waves in summer or when it's freezing in winter, but I do love the variety of the seasons and would definitely miss them if I lived somewhere with only warm weather. Plus I always enjoy snuggling up under a throw with a nice hot chocolate and seeing the seasonal changes as autumn comes along, and later winter, and most of my favourite clothes are better suited to the cooler seasons.

 

[Kitsuragi]

as much as i love the seasons, and get to experience them all strongly where i live, my body doesn't handle the cold anymore. i think if/when i can move, i'll be living somewhere warmer.

 

[Yoshi155]

I’m boring so I prefer having seasons. Even though I think warm weather is better than cold weather I also can’t stand the heat after a while, so I need it to change every so often.

 

[VernalLapin]

As much as I hate cold weather, four seasons would probably be better for me because it’s what I’m used to and switches things up. Not sure what springs are like in warm climates either. I would at least prefer somewhere with milder winters.

 

[Halloqueen]

I love being able to experience all four seasons. Autumn and Winter are my favorite part of the year and, while snow and ice can be a bother to deal with, I love the aesthetics of snow. I've always lived somewhere that experiences all four seasons and, while I plan to move eventually, I'd move somewhere that experiences all four seasons as well.

 

[amemome]

I love having 4 seasons, but don't love being humid and hot. I'm currently somewhere mostly hot and arid and with just a brief wet season. I miss the rain and the snow from 4 season weather but don't miss being sticky and sweaty hahaha! also a huge fan of seeing the deciduous trees turning colors and dropping leaves in the fall. and crunching on the autumn leaves hehehe

oh, and i also miss seeing lots of flowers in the spring/summer. everything here dies after the wet season

 

[Midoriya]

I'd love to live somewhere where it's warm all year round! Thankfully, I already kind of do!

 

[Saylor]

I'd definitely prefer having the four seasons. This summer has been bad for me with how hot it's been in Colorado so it'd be nice to be somewhere a more mild warm all year, but I wouldn't give up a proper fall and winter for it.

 

[Seastar]

I prefer having the seasons. I absolutely hate summer and can't imagine it being that all year long, especially with climate change going on currently.

 

[Soigne]

i like having all four seasons, but i wouldn't mind moving somewhere warmer year round. a few states i'm considering moving to are a bit warmer than where i live now.

 

[Nunnafinga]

Back in the 1970s the weather here in Arizona was very different.We had four distinct seasons.It actually was pretty cold here during the winter even though it very rarely snowed and the summers weren't too bad.I remember playing outside all day during the summer when I was a kid and it never felt too hot to be outside.Nowadays it's another story.Summers are much hotter and there's pretty much two seasons here:frickin' hot and not as hot.I can deal with it but if I could go back to that 70's weather I certainly would.

 

[-Blue-]

I never lived somewhere where the weather was pretty much the same all year round. I'd imagine living somewhere where it was hot all year round would be just as miserable as living somewhere where it was brutally cold all the time. I remember watching this YouTube clip showing the life of this family somewhere where it remained so bitter cold for like something insane like 9-10 months per year.

It was like year(s) ago when I saw that clip and I didn't even watch it all, but what they had to go through for a daily routine was rough. The father would get up to start fires. Then go to break ice and melt it for them to have drinking water. The wife had to cook with what they stored away to survive the cold winter and I think it was mashed berries and some kind of baked pancake like bread.

Living in either type of these climates year round would be miserable. I like the variety that the seasons bring. Even if sometimes the harsher months can bring intense heat or intense cold (and I hate shoveling snow constantly to get to work and or heat up my car way earlier before I can leave)

I'm just used to the change of the 4 seasons. And I like that variety and how it switches up.

 

[Snowesque]

Four seasons for sure. I would get bored of just warm weather all the time.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Usually I strongly prefer the idea of four seasons but it's been somewhat cold this winter where I live and i'm just so annoyed by it; I'm tired of being cold all the time, I just want infinite summer right now