I live on Long Island NY but have been down south many times and was stationed down there for a while in the Army.
I like the changing of the seasons and in the fall we take trips upstate to take riverboat rides and see the fall folliage. That is a big deal here and tough to get hotel or B&B reservations. In the winter many of us ski or just go to ski lodges to hang out in private hot tubs in the snow.
The houses are built for the cold and snow and last winter it went to zero degrees and we had I think one snowfall of about 20".
It is not like years ago, the snow used to be around all winter, now two days after it stops snowing, most of it is gone and the roads are generally cleared the same day.
The cold is not bad, if it's cold, you put on warm clothes. In the tropics when it is 110 degrees, what do you do? Of course in NY it also gets to 100 degrees and we usually have very high humidity, it is one of the few places on earth where the temperature varies over 100 degrees from summer to winter.
This is not near my house but sometimes it looks somewhat like this
Especially no good diving up there probably!
Not so, I have about 200 dives here in NY and although our visability is measured in inches we find much more unusual things than in the tropics.
Most everything that sunk here is still there with everything on it. There are 2,000 shipwrecks around Long Island and they are covered in "real" lobsters, not those sissy tropical lobsters.
Tropical diving is great and I have been to many tropical places but fish are common, sunken submarines, railroad cars, airplanes and machine guns are not :spin2:
One thing I don't understand about here is why there are no diners like the ones in the north. Typically they are owned by Greek familys, open 24 hrs a day, the menu is 8-10 pages thick with just about anything you could possibly want to eat at any time of day or night
And there are probably 25 of them with in walking distance of my house. :wave:
Thats one of the main things I miss in the south, good restaurants. I know there are some but I don't like chain restaurants, I like good sea food restaurants and I think I could eat in a different one everty night for the rest of my life and never hit the same one twice. Red Lobster doesn't count
But I like to eat.
I also love everything about the Florida Keys