To want to move to a better climate?

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This is kind of light hearted as I'm just venting and feeling really disheartened but I am so fucking sick of British weather and really feel like a move down under or California or somewhere, anywhere that it doesn't rain so fucking much!!

I am supposed to be having a bbq this evening and, up until last evening, the weather looked ok...a bit overcast but dry. I never host anything so I've gone all out, I had to buy garden furniture and an actual bbq (I guess that was kind of important 😂) and I've got loads of food and IT HASN'T STOPPED RAINING 😭😭😭

AIBU to want just one part of the year where it doesn't rain? AIBU to want to emigrate to Dubai or Australia?

The weather itself doesn't bother me but I hate being unable to plan. I wish forcasters could predict a month or at least 10 days accurately.

I'm not blaming them. It's the bloody jet steam 😡

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I moved to Australia for this exact reason, it's bloody amazing. Life is so much easier when the sun shines every day.

Wealthy retired Americans have the right idea. Escape the frozen north by spending winters in Florida, then head back to New England or the great lakes for the summer to escape the ridiculous heat & humidity of Florida.

We have been having great weather. In Britain.

I live in Texas. It’s pretty warm all year round.

It very occasionally gets cold but most of December was equivalent to a nice British Spring day.

Of course we do have tremendous thunder and lightening storms in a fairly regular basis and of course hurricanes.

We’re just coming to the end of a month of record breaking hot weather (20 days in the mid to high 90s).

It’s currently too hot to BBQ outside.

It’s currently too hot for the children to play outside at recess.

The local school’s end of semester picnic has been moved to the school cafeteria.

My neighbours walk their dogs at 4am.

I can’t dry laundry outside for most of the year because it fades so quickly.

And it’s still only Spring.

Any kind of weather brings problems. It’s just different problems.

We can swap locations. You're very welcome to my corner of the world, where there are two seasons: hot and wet, and hot and dry. I love rain and the cold.

I hate my place not only because of it, and whenever I dream about leaving this shithole, I always choose somewhere with 4 seasons.

Yes I think it’s been pretty bloody great, too!

I don't know where in the UK you people are but we've just had a month of mostly sunny and warm weather in the North West :)

Yanbu. Why not spain tho? Australia v far and v expensive. Im going to spain when u retire at 60. I can afford a better house. I speak spanish. I am eu citizen! Why not?

I moved somewhere hot (and unfortunately humid). We get up at 5am on the weekends to go hiking and spend our lives with the blinds drawn. Never thought I'd miss a grey, cold, drizzly day!

This is a big part of why I emigrated to Oz. The weather in Perth is wonderful, even in winter its high teens and mostly sunny. Although we had some hail this morning which was exciting! I even begrudge the short sunny winter we get, bring back those glorious summer mid 30s days! And the scary spider thing is over-stated, you hardly ever see them. I only moved here when I was 42, wish I'd done it earlier.

Wealthy retired Americans have the right idea. Escape the frozen north by spending winters in Florida, then head back to New England or the great lakes for the summer to escape the ridiculous heat & humidity of Florida.

Yes - New England in the summer is heaven, but it's tough in winter.

I think I'll do summers in Maine and winters in South Carolina.

I think the British climate is hugely underrated - especially by its own citizens! The winters are cold but not completely and utterly frigid, can't go out cold. The Summers are variable but you do always get some perfect summer weather - in the 20's, low humidity light until late in the evening..

You also get some glorious winter days - cold and bright. The change of seasons is also lovely I think.

I live in Asia - the summers are unbearable at times. Today it was 35 degrees and 90% humidity at 6am. You can't really go out and enjoy this type of weather, you sweat as soon as you leave the house. It will be this way until around October - broken only by periods of torrential rain and typhoons. The rain can be 'turn the streets into rivers' rain for days on end. The Autumns are great, the winters not as bad as uk but it does get cold and wet.

There are few places on earth with perfect climates...

We opted for Canada. In Ontario so can get -40c in the winter and +40c in the summer. It works for us because 3-5 months of the year it's a temperature that one of us likes (I love the heat and DH loves the cold).

We didn't just move because of the weather though. Lots of factors on place and it was always a panned move. I'm definitely happier because of the weather though. I didn't realise at the time just how much the miserable weather in Britian (we were West Scotland for a lot of the recent years but traveled the country a lot) was making me until moving. So YANBU to went to move but Dubai is a definite no no. We considered Australia but New Zealand was a bigger consideration down under when looking for a move.

YANBU.

Australia's the best. Not biased at all.

I’ve been somewhere hot for the last 5.5 years - most of the time I love the sunshine, being able to go to the beach or pool throughout the year, guaranteed good weather for BBQs. The 2/3 months of intense summer we still swim first thing or 4pm ish and leave for 6 weeks in the summer.

But I really miss the seasons! Green trees turning brown in autumn, those glorious cold sunny winter days, first flowers in spring, long light evenings in summer....... Here everything looks the same all the time!

I moved to Australia for this exact reason, it's bloody amazing. Life is so much easier when the sun shines every day

Agreed. I Live somewhere where the summers are weeks of beautiful sunshine, you can plan bbqs and parties etc. VERY occasionally it will be a bit too hot but there is excellent air con everywhere, nowhere is sweaty and miserable, there are outdoor pools to jump in and in hot weeks in summer you can be lying in the sea as the sun goes down. In winter you get the beautiful crispy mornings just like in the uk. And rain just enough to stop you feeling sad and missing it. Most winters are dry and mild with blue skies. No evil Darwin humidity. And rarely a spider to be seen... Do it (oh and in season food is actually as cheap as the uk providing you don’t buy processed stuff) Come join us ;)

Domino I'm curious where has no seasons? I know everyone thinks its sunny all the time in Australia, but in Perth we have six seasons instead of four according the local aborigines. I'd prefer summer all year although I do appreciate that would make things impossible to live here.

Currently in Hong Kong and enjoying the 35 degree heat although my hair is not enjoying the humidity
Love being out with the dcs until 10/11pm

AltheaorDonna - I’m in the Middle East, it cools down in winter but our daylight hours don’t change by much throughout the year and 95% of the time it’s sunny....... The landscape is always just sand, sand and more sand

Althea The Northern Territory and Queensland definitely don't have four seasons (and the northern part of Western Australia).

But just about everywhere else does.

I'm in the Snowy Mountains. We get four distinct seasons; have higher mountains and more consistent snow than the UK, but also get consistently beautiful, predictably warm/hot summers. The criteria Carefully was looking for on the first page is met by a lot of western/rural NSW and VIC.

We moved back to the UK from Australia because of the weather, amongst other things! We lived in Sydney, and found the heat and humidity utterly draining. Every year it seemed to get hotter, and the risk of bushfire increased. In fact in the summer after we moved back there were two bushfires that came very close to our old home.

We moved to eastern Scotland, and much prefer the weather here. It is quite dry though, where I believe the west is very wet.

RedDwarves, I couldn't cope with the humidity in QLD or the NT, but the weather in Perth is lovely most of the year as humidity is very low. We have seasons too. The only thing I miss from the UK is long summer evenings, but you can't really do much about that.

thatsscottishtender . Noosa? Australia has a great climate. Sunshine Coast is paradise. British weather cannot compete. I still pinch myself.