To want to move to a better climate?

[NewDOOFUSfor18]

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?

Lots of places near the equator have no seasons, just a dry and a rainy season

After 10 years in Central/South America and living with heat heat heat, then torrential rain, and oh yes, earthquakes! And volcano erruptions, I started to really miss the seasons

Also, if it is hot every day nobody has a bbq very often, as you.miss the thrill and excitement of the "it could be ok to bbq today!". Also, around the equator you don't get nice long summer evenings as it gets dark around 6

So really, England is not so bad...

newdoofus we are actually going to Australia in October to do a “reccie”.... weather and housing prices (extortionate in the south!!!) are killing us, so we’re thinking of making the move. I need sun!!!
Shall I pop you in my suitcase??

Also, if it is hot every day nobody has a bbq very often, as you.miss the thrill and excitement of the "it could be ok to bbq today!".

Oh that’s hysterical! “You miss the thrill” How ridiculous.
I’d happily forgo the “thrill” and just have a bloody barbecue. In fact, the fact that you get thrilled about having one shows you how awful our weather is!

We lived overseas in the sun for 25 years and while I now have a fab life in UK that I couldn't have in our other 'home' I so miss the weather. I hate that being away for three days this week at a large event we have had to pack for all weathers - it has rained (thunder and lightning), been hot and been cold. It is much much easier to look glamorous and elegant when you don't have to wear multi layers because of the fricking weather.

I love the heat, I love it that when you walk outdoors the heat and humidity wrap themselves around you like a huge big hug. I loved not having to check the weather before getting dressed. I loved that my kids were outside every day - even when it was close to 50 degrees we swam super early.

I struggle in the greyness that is so much of UK. My energy levels dip up and down according to the temperature, and the light and sun or lack of it.

But I LOVE doing what I am now doing that would be impossible in the those hot and humid countries we lived in and loved.

My body is in UK but my spirit belongs in the desert.

Isn't amazing how different people are?!
I know we've had a couple of good weeks but it's the unpredictability of the weather that gets on my nerves...and the fact that the forecast changes on a whim.

I live on Cornwall (I know, I know I really shouldn't moan) but it has honestly rained here since October last year with one or 2 dry days inbetween and it's so depressing. Plus I'm now having to replace my carpets because I live rural and the mud is EVERYWHERE!

No, don’t move to Australia. It’s a bloody long way from most of the world and the novelty of 40 degree plus temps in summer wear off quickly.

Then in winter the houses can be colder inside than out due to shoddy to shoddy building standards.

The bills to heat and cool your house and the water bill to keep your garden alive can be eye watering.

I long to live somewhere with colder winters where I can buy a proper winter wardrobe and wear boots all the time.

Blue tongue just as a counterpoint to your post. This summer Perth didn’t have any days over 38 degrees, normally we get maybe 5 days over 40 a year. I agree the houses are badly insulated, but a log burner sorts that out, my house is extremely cosy. Our power bills are so much lower than the UK, our winter heating costs $25 a year for a permit to spend an afternoon chopping logs, we fill a Ute and that keeps the burner going all winter. In the UK we spent an absolute fortune on central heating and fuel! In the summer our house is pretty cool, we only really need the aircon if it’s over 35 Also we have bore retic so our water bills are low.

So, I know Oz is a huge place and I realise ymmv, but I’d much rather live here than grey drizzly UK, even if I don’t get to wear my nice boots very often! Although that might be just a matter of time, my colleague today was wearing suede knee boots today because the temp dropped to a chilly 17!

seriously BigFatGoalie, bbq's are not such a big thing outside the UK (apart from Oz)

We BBQ most days in the summer, but we have a gas BBQ rather than a charcoal one, and often it's easier just to fire it up and cook on it than to faff about cooking indoors.

peanutbutter then you’re not doing them properly
It’s not only Australia, and what’s better than having people over to drink ice cold wine in the sunshine, children swim the pool and just relax together over an easy meal?!
OP, I couldn’t agree with you more at the unpredictability of the weather. That’s what gets me down the most.

Australia?
Snakes
Spiders
Men in hats with corks swinging from them
Crocodiles
Descended from convicts

Nope.

actually I think mid to South France would be nice. Similar seasons to here but with longer hotter summer's and shorter winters

We lived in the Caribbean for 5 years with 2 primary age children. It had 2 seasons, hot and hotter!
The biggest challenge of the day was 'shall we swim in the pool or sea' and we usually did both.
There is a lot to be said for living somewhere where you never feel cold. Not wearing tights for 5 years was good too!

I'm planning on wintering in Florida when we retire. I hate the British weather for its unpredictability. If we could just know that the summer would be warm, and the winter would be cold (like other places that have seasons), I wouldn't feel so cross about it all the time.

A lot depends on location.

For example, northern Portugal isn't hot - I used to live in Porto and the weather was honestly no better than the UK (and I'm from Scotland - think very mild summers, plenty of rain). I also lived in Lisbon where the climate was better, but there is no way I'd ever live in Portugal again, and by the end I've never been so glad to leave a place. It was awful.

I now live on the Mediterranean in Spain and am quite content - moving to a warmer climate doesn't sort everything out, or stop life having problems, but I've found the consistently sunny and warm weather, along with the nice people, makes stressful situations somehow seem a little better.

@RoseWhiteTips Those men in cork dangling hats are just everywhere. You have to be careful or they have your eye out with a whip of their head.

Don't move to South Australia. I'm currently freezing my pouch off and dreaming of moving to Broome or the Gold Coast. Current temp is 7.2 at the moment but the 'apparent temp' is 1 degree. Stone the flaming crows!