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It is a sunny, very windyand cool day in Daytona Beach. Feels like cold front is here. We are not even hitting 80F, and this is the first time since late Spring. Ocean is still warm, warmer than the air, but it is too choppy. 2 last days I keep the windows open at night, and we turned off the air conditioner.
Fair 76°F
Long ago in my "previous life" we lived in far north Russia, just 100 miles above the Arctic Circle. I was surprised to see that I can check the weather there on MSN. I typed in Vorkuta and it gave me a snapshot of the weather in the place where I spent 14 years of my life.
Showers 30°F
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20 Comments on Why Am I In Florida
Jon,
Let' see now, 100 mi north of the Artic Circle vs. sunny Florida...sounds to me like you're in the right place.
We're packing our shorts too for Orlando in a few weeks for NAR, but even greater news is that we will be spending a few days in advance in the Keys.
Beautiful white sans of Daytona Beach beats the gorgeous white plains of snow anyday! Glad you are a fellow Floridian, Jon.
Hi Jon,
Wow! What a difference (living in FL after previously living in Russia)!! Biketoberfest also sounds like fun!
Don't forget me if you learn of anyone moving to "The OC!"
Michael
(949) 753-7900
Jon,
Florida was "the place" fifty years ago. Now, you have too much traffic, too many hurricanes, too many people, too much polution, et al. You really should check out New Mexico. You can have Florida's climate in the south (Las Cruces) and the Alpine climate in the north (Chama and Red River).
Hi Jon, I LOVE living in Florida! I have absolutely enjoyed the last couple of weeks, with the cooler than normal temperatures, a bit of wind, and minimal humidity! Take care!
I would love to have your Florida weather forecast. Here in NY, I had to turn the heat on last night because it got down to 32 degrees.
How's the real estate market in Vorkuta, Jon ?
I am glad you are here, too.
Amen brother I hear you... if it drops below 80 Im cold
Hi Jon, That was an interesting post as many you write are. If you fall into the 50's it will still be sort of heatwave from where you used to hail from. Living in Fla is not quite what living in CA is but is at least it is real. LaLa land ( Ca.)is for the fantasy players,lol. The cost of housing is dropping but not really by much in the big scheme of things but the cost of living is escalating to amazing proportions.
Lynda - have fun in the Keys. Warm up for the coming winter.
Nich olas - I am sometimes pinching myself to make sure that I am not dreaming. My wife ia a practical woman, and after we arrived in New York and settled in Coop City, with a gorgeous view of Pelham Bay the Long Island Sound in the distance with its incredible blue waters, I would come to the window, and then ask her to come to look at the view, disrupting her routine. Then I kept doing it in Florida, asking her to look at the beautiful green... She is living tis life, and I am still as if I just came form the Arctic, where you forget what green means...
i am still warming up, and I do not get tired of green, and I remember that white was driving me nuts. It was a coal mining place, with only two colors: white on the ground and black underground. Add to that no outdoors and polar nights - very depressing
Michael - I won't. I am not sure whether Floridian would be able to afford your wonderful but expenisve State.
Bill - I would love to travel around the country, and only hope the market gets just a bit warmer. New Mexico sounds great
Sandy Shores - what a name for a Florida Realtor! You got an unfair advantage in your market with this name (LOL)
And I love it here. Even when it is hot. Always wanted to live on the water. Nice climate is just an added bonus to that
Krystal - I know. I called my friend in New York and he said the weather was OK, but when he said that it was 48F, for me it did not sound too good.
Wishing you a good winter
Ted - Real estate market there is a disaster. And socially it is a disaster place. Times of non-market economy are over, and all that is left from the Soviet era glory are cole mines with coal costing too much and too far and with the trnasportation cost skyrocketing, nobody really needs that coal, except for some of the highest quality ones used metallurgy.
Housing had always been a problem in USSR, and Vorkuta was not an exception. Imagine that right now there are 5 story apartment buildings, that used to be a drea, for many people, staying empty. Older non-productive mines with inferior coals are closed, and small towns around them are dead.
The population is shrinking, Maintaining a full fledged city with all the services, drama theater, libraries, college, hospitals, schools is not feasible, but nobody knows what to do with these people. The break-up of the Soviet Union hurt the people in Vorkuta tremendously. There were many miners from the Ukraine, their retirements are in Russia, but not in the Ukraine, a lot of difficult things for a lot of people. Vorkuta's population is shrinking. Used to be just over 200,000. Now at best 150,000 if even that.
Vorkuta started as a GULAG place, and people were brought from all over the country. Where do they go now? Nobody is waiting for them. Not the Ukraine, not Byelorussia... Not Russia
It is a crisis. Just one of many in Russia. Too much wasted land, too many wasted people
Kelly - Thanks for the support. It is difficult to explain to people coming from up north, that, no, they will not be swimming in the ocean in February, and the fact that they do that just shows that they from up north. After living here for a few years, they feel cold when it is under 80, like you say
William - I feel that you are quite serious. We are following California and last peak was to certain extent scary, as we were watching the cost of living forcing people to pack and go to Carolinas, Georgia, and other more affordable places.
We are getting a break now, but I am sure it will come back with the vengeance
Jon - That bottom picture looks an awful lot like my front yard at the moment. You're making Florida look better and better!
Jesse - I would not be surprised that Florida becomes more attractive as the tempreature drops in Fairbanks (LOL).
By the way, I also checked the weather in Fairbanks at the same time, and you were colder this day, I also was surprised by the weather in Vorkuta, as in all my years there by that time the winter was in full force, not as warm as this year.
I have a friend of mine living in Juneau, We were in the same class at school, and then in the same group at the university. He sent me photos of Juneau, and looks like you have so different climates, it is amazing.
Of all that I miss licking mushrooms the most. That was my best outdoors and I am missing it in Florida.