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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2025, 06:50:49 PM »
It'll be 112 here in Phoenix on Sunday.  I'll be up in Sedona with friends.  4300' 
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« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2025, 07:18:29 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on June 13, 2025, 06:50:49 PM
It'll be 112 here in Phoenix on Sunday.  I'll be up in Sedona with friends.  4300'
You guys should go to Death Valley instead. 
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« Reply #30 on: June 13, 2025, 08:05:13 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on June 13, 2025, 07:18:29 PM
You guys should go to Death Valley instead.
Baton Rouge or Clemson?
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #31 on: June 13, 2025, 08:09:02 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on June 13, 2025, 11:44:05 AM
Pennsylvania:
This one really interests me because I can't come up with an obvious explanation.  If anyone has one or a theory, I'd be interested to hear it. 
Why? 

Philadelphia peaked in high school.
Pittsburgh was reliant on a now-obsolete economy.

Should have learned to code.
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #32 on: June 13, 2025, 08:10:03 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on June 13, 2025, 11:42:34 AM
@OrangeAfroMan this might help give some context to the discussion we had about the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum. One can in hindsight look back and see them as failures because they weren't able to fill them the way you think they should...

But in the context of the Roaring 20's, in a state that was rapidly growing in population, and that looked like everything was going to be "up and to the right" forever... I understand why the people behind building those stadiums perhaps were dreaming big.

Perhaps it didn't pan out, but I understand why they thought it would.
Right.  

Stupid thinking.  
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #33 on: June 13, 2025, 08:29:20 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on June 13, 2025, 06:13:00 PM
We're not disagreeing here.

My point is that you're talking about indoor temps, though.

I'll use myself here as anecdata. I DO NOT want to move back to Chicago. I DO NOT want to deal with those winters any more.

However, if it was a question of winter in Chicago vs heat in Austin w/o AC, or heat in Atlanta w/o AC, or heat in Tucson w/o AC or heat in Miami w/o AC... I might choose Chicago.

But once you introduce AC, now you have comfortable indoor temps in the South, and HORRIFIC outdoor temps in the North. It's not just a pull... It's also a push. People WANT to get out of the cold--and AC makes that possible because it allows you to deal with the heat.
I think I get where you are coming from now. I was thinking more in a historical context so lack of a/c anywhere, as you indicated, makes places like Tuscon, Austin, Atlanta, Miami pretty unappealing.

I also think that @jgvol has a good point. Costal California has a moderate climate such that you never have to deal Chicago winters AND you also don't get brutally hot summers either. 
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« Reply #34 on: June 13, 2025, 10:03:06 PM »
AC produced "Florida man."

In the 'before time,' people could only live near the coasts of FL, due to the seabreeze limiting temps.  Inland was stagnant, moist, and hot.  

Then the AC was invented, allowing people to populate the middle of the state, which gave rise to "Florida man."
Facts are facts.
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #35 on: June 13, 2025, 10:51:57 PM »
Wyoming, the least populated state (587k) now has 11 cities with at least 10,000 people, none over 70k.  Montana with 1.1m only has 8 cities with 10k.  Meanwhile, Texas has 12 cities with over 250,000 people.  California with 15.
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #36 on: June 14, 2025, 08:03:39 AM »
I prefer the weather here to Cincinnati's by quite a bit.  It stays "hot" longer here, but the hottest months are not as humid here, and the T is about the same on average.

The winters of course are vastly different.  Cincinnati got really humid at times, and hot, it was ... unpleasant.
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« Reply #37 on: June 14, 2025, 08:06:13 AM »
got down to 61 this morning - windows open and a box fan in a window
cooling down the house for the expected afternoon high of 90
haven't run the A/C yet - it's been mild
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« Reply #38 on: June 14, 2025, 10:16:36 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on June 13, 2025, 08:29:20 PM
I also think that @jgvol has a good point. Costal California has a moderate climate such that you never have to deal Chicago winters AND you also don't get brutally hot summers either.
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #39 on: June 14, 2025, 11:09:09 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on June 13, 2025, 06:50:49 PM
It'll be 112 here in Phoenix on Sunday.  I'll be up in Sedona with friends.  4300'
I will probably golf in the morning and send the day in my pool, drinking an adult beverage and smoking a cigar. Rather have 112 which I dont mind than anything below 50 degrees
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #40 on: June 14, 2025, 11:23:09 AM »
112 is better than -12 
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Re: Population trends random thoughts
« Reply #41 on: June 14, 2025, 11:31:16 AM »
Especially when you have a pool behind your house.

I wouldn't live here without one, but many do.
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