Originally Posted by
jpx7
The humidity is a massive part of why I'll never live in the south-east again, unless professional factors absolutely dictate I must (which isn't very likely). Having spent the better part of sixteen years growing up in Pensacola, Florida, I know intimately how heinous the humidity gets, and I have no desire to ever experience it again. Even the two months of summer in Chicago was a bit too damp for my tastes; meanwhile, the life-affirming aridity of Arizona is something I'll actually dearly miss when I move on to my next port-of-call in a few months.
But to Enscheff's point—though I'm by no means as damning or denigratory as him on this score—the culture of the south-east, generally, is another big part of why I never want to move back.