"Nate Nagel" wrote in message
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AZ Nomad wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:15:29 -0500, KLS wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:50:48 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...

A New York author once said: "The outdoors is something through which
I pass between my apartment and my car."

The same applies in Phoenix.

If you don't want to complain about the weather, move to Hawaii. They
don't even have weather forecasts on the TV because the weather is
exactly the same every day (the islands are surrounded by a one
trillion square mile heat sink). Or, you can do as I do.

Stay inside. With redundant air conditioning.
That sounds horrible! Why live in a place that you have to do that?

My thought exactly!


Uh, how is that worse than staying inside with heating?
Last time I checked, most people in northern climates stayed inside
during the winter. Being outside in minus ten degree weather isn't much
better than being outside in 115 degree weather.

The hell it isn't. One can be perfectly comfortable in -10 weather with
proper cloathing. (I have a cashmere jacket that is very light and will
keep me warm down to about 15 degrees or so.) One can't be comfortable in
115 degree weather even stark naked and dripping wet. And for a lot of
people that ain't a pretty picture. Anywhere that requires A/C to keep
you from dying of heatstroke isn't somewhere I want to live. (and that
actually includes my current residence, but I have this thing about eating
regularly, and there ain't no jobs where I grew up.)

nate

(unrepentant damnyankee)

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2 words: low humidity. once you get used to it, you can work outside during
the day as long as you keep hydrated.

people have lived in az for a long time before a/c was invented. for that
matter, mexico, just to our south, is even more hot and humid, and no one
told the maya that they shouldn't live there.

regards,
charlie
cave creek, az