How about that heat!

[RandallNeighbour]

Mark, I've lived abroad before and wouldn't do it again. Before you and your wife decide to do this, rent a place there for 1-2 years and see if you can make friends, get along with the locals, warm up to a totally different culture, and live that far away from your existing friends and family. You may change your mind.

Plus, the more "wealthy" (by comparison) Americans move to Panama, there will be increases in hostage ransoms, armed robbery, and so forth. That's not a risk I want to take, and driving around in a Porsche is just about the fastest way to stick out in a crowd of poor people who want what you have and aren't willing to work for it the way you did.

Overdrive, I've been to MO a couple of times and it does seem pretty, but I'm kinda stuck on North Carolina.

Once again, I was using my new realtor.com app on my iPad to find amazing homes on the lake or in the mountains in Robbinsville, at the base of the Tail of the Dragon. They're priced at the same general price my home here in Houston is worth now. Nice thing is they won't keep rising in value the way my inner-city property and home will near downtown Houston in one of the most desirable neighborhoods, so I just might have a shot and selling here and paying cash there. Having the TOD in my back yard sounds like my kind of retirement!

I moved 75 heavy boxes and furniture today from my warehouse to my father in law's house in the burbs in 100+ temps, reinforcing my hatred of this place.

The rest of the country is experiencing a couple of week's worth of what we have for nearly six freaking months out of every year. At least the guys in FL have a nice beach to go to when they want it. All we have is a toilet bowl called Galveston, containing nasty brown water, tar balls in the sand, and the highest concentration of welfare recipients in the state.

Yeah, I know. I'm bitter.

[Overdrive]

I spent mid-May to early July in San Antonio, and July to Novemeber in Wichita Falls, Randall, so I do feel your pain, as I did experience exactly six months of Texas weather, albeit mostly in the more northeastern portion, but 105 is still 105, and CT has a serious love affair with humidity, too, so our high double digits suck, the triple digits even more. For me, 100+ in Texas never felt as bad, and my co-worker, recently moved up here from Houston, no less, was B&M-ing about how hot it was this past week compared to back home.
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[RandallNeighbour]

I should really move to San Jose or San Francisco. The temps always hover around the 70s there.

Problem is that it's just too damn liberal for me in that part of the country, not to mention that the state has been teetering on the verge of bankrupcy for years with no end in sight.

So I'll stay in Texas and B&M about it.

[boxster6354]

Oh come on Randall, its not that hot!

I just got back from a nice top down drive and it felt great................ till I stopped at the first street light and after 20 seconds I started to melt, then got up to speed and had AC running full blast and hit another street light.........

Damn its hot, what was I thinking........

We will have to plan another run, but early morning...........

[Johnny Danger]

It really cooled off up here in New England . It's back to the leather jumpsuits for me and my "bird" .

[Dave S.]

You guys need to come to the Colorado mountains for a nice summer drive. The roads up here were made for sportscars and motorcycles. I live at 8700 feet and we rarely get above the low 80's, with most days sunny and in the upper 70's and hunmidity typically in the single digits.
...Of course winter is something else and lasts a long time at elevation.