Good point. I can buy twice the house in Chicago for the same money I'd pay in San Diego.

 

Hey 2Sore,
It's about 15F in BV right now. While that's better than Commie Town, I mean Chicago, it is still a bit nippy out and not really 2 wheel weather. Oh, and Arkansas is Gun Friendly. I'd say even more so than Texas.

 

Yep Doc..but..it's gonna be 52° on Saturday.

 

yes its cold here... thats not the problem, the problem is that I cannot ride my scoot! I will (if I could) move anywhere I could ride 12 months a year! Your right Shrink, if youoculd move you would be gone, I would be too... but I have been at my job for almost 10 years and I cannot leave and start all over. As far as the gun laws, those are only in Chicago itself. And that also depends on what kind of job you have..... some people have no gun laws, and others scary as it sounds dont care what the laws are... man the City is crazy, but where I live although it may be colder, Northern Illnois, its not that bad.. I mean if it didn't snow how would Santa come????

 

Kansas isn't no better today, 9 degrees out there

 

Chicago is one helluva city, I can see why it is hard to leave. I was born and raised outside of Detroit, so I can relate quite a bit to the weather woes. I moved to Memphis a year ago and love every bit of it. The hardest part is the distance for family, especially for my kids and their grandparents. I don't have to winterize the bike at all here. I'm also willing to ride down to 35* so the season is considerably more open.

If you won't be flying back home from where ever you land, find someplace that is a days worth of driving away (different for everyone else).

 

I was born and raised in LA, moved to Washington state -- the desert part in South Central area on the Columbia river for a few years and then back to San Diego area and now I'm back in Washington state! The desert part of the state get's it cold spells, but only for a couple to three weeks at at time -- cold today, but mid 60's and golfing all last week under the bright sunshine! San Diego was fun, but housing prices and taxes and state income tax made no sense to me anymore -- too much money going out the door and I'm a Native Californian! My entire family has left the So Cal area due to the cost and my brother recently moved his business out of So Cal as taxes were getting so bad and good help harder and harder to find. So Cal is fun, don't get me wrong, but I like to keep the money I make not give it away in taxes! My buddy says it this way about living in LA: When you make a 100k a year and you feel poor, something is wrong.

 

46 posts. 44 members whining about how cold it is. I'm from upstate NY where an average winter is 160 inches of snow. I lived in Chicago for 6 years and will always believe it is the finest big city on the planet. I currently for work reasons live in S.E. PA where it is 12 degrees.

It's just weather...get over it!

 

Thanks a lot, I decided I was going to try and have a more positive attitude about winter in Michigan this year. You make me want to go out and buy a rope.

Rick

 

Left Chicago in January of 1988. Was out riding my bike today on the streets of Phoenix.