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"To be accurate, the Brightline isn’t technically high-speed, offering a top speed of 120 miles per hour and expected operating average of 80 mph, especially, compared to European and Asian systems."

I think this is a good idea in certain areas even if it's not "high speed".  You don't need high speed unless you're going hundreds of miles.  We're supposed to get commuter rail down to Jonesboro and perhaps Macon.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/after-years-rail-service-marta-poised-for-expansion/riVqZ2OWwrcHXKRXFy1mQL/

This isn't as fast as Brightline and won't go as far.  Be nice is the systems were standardized.

"To be accurate, the Brightline isn’t technically high-speed, offering a top speed of 120 miles per hour and expected operating average of 80 mph, especially, compared to European and Asian systems."

I think this is a good idea in certain areas even if it's not "high speed".  You don't need high speed unless you're going hundreds of miles.  We're supposed to get commuter rail down to Jonesboro and perhaps Macon.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/after-years-rail-service-marta-poised-for-expansion/riVqZ2OWwrcHXKRXFy1mQL/

This isn't as fast as Brightline and won't go as far.  Be nice is the systems were standardized.

Yeah, the Brightline trains- now called Virgin Trains USA- can't go 120+ mph the entire route from WPB to Ft Laud to Miami- just not enough empty land and way too much population in the area and it's actually a very short route. WPB to Miami is only maybe 60-70 miles. But sometimes it can take you 2 to 3 hrs to make that trip just because of the freaking traffic on 95.

I've been on the high speed trains in Europe that go 180+, love it. Wish we had some of that here in the states.

My absolute guess is the train will go a lot faster when they extend it from WPB to Orlando. You'd tihnk that would be the case. That's hundreds of miles and plenty of empty land, low populated areas, and it's a much longer distance.

It's really only super hot and humid during the summer. Weather is basically perfect from fall to winter to spring. Summer hits- it's hot as all hell and humid. But that's what shorts, short sleeve shirts, and AC were all invented for my friend.

I'm from Detroit. I'll take the hot, rainy summers that last a few months over the excruciating, depressing freezing shithole buried in snow, sky always grey all day long, ice, shoveling snow and de-icing the car, and freezing your nuts off winters that run into the spring of the Midwest. Chicago had like polar ice vortex storms with -46 degree temps last winter. Uh, yeah, no thanks.

Not that many people in Florida. Only 21 million. You want to talk about too many people. Cali has like 40 million and Texas has like 30 million. There's way too many people in California and Texas, especially from Mexico.

FT. Lauderdale was hot and humid in Dec-Jan for the Orange bowl back in the 90s

Been to Orlando a few times, seemed hot and humid there each time

I liked St. Pete but plenty of humidity near the beach

70% humidity here in NW Iowa at the moment

I certainly agree about winters here - they suck

I'm thinking someplace like New Mexico, less humidity, fewer people.

I was in Albequerque for a bit, really liked it.  It does get cold of course.

Had some great good there.

I'm thinkin something like Albuquerque or Santa Fe, maybe north of there.  Get some elevation and lose some humidity.

Expected high of 98 in Albuquerque, but it will feel like 98

Sewer City, IA expects 91, but it will feel like over 100

Santa Fe expects 90, humidity at 45%

Farmington NM expects 96, but humidity is 28%

Farmington is nearly in Colorado, long way from the border

too hot and humid for me

too many people, especially from the upper east coast

Yeah, I can't handle the humidity. I can deal with heat, but the humidity is crushing, and then with humidity you get mosquitoes. If I could wave a magic wand and exterminate mosquitoes from the planet, I'd do it.

Now, it's possible that would completely and totally disrupt the ecosystem by removing those mosquitoes from the food chain, destroying the environment and ending human civilization as a result.

I'd still do it. 

Not that many people in Florida. Only 21 million. You want to talk about too many people. Cali has like 40 million and Texas has like 30 million. There's way too many people in California and Texas, especially from Mexico.

Remember that California is an ENORMOUS state. And most of those people are located in two areas, the LA/San Diego megalopolis, and the SF Bay Area. 

30M of the state's total 41M people live in those metropolitan areas. Which means if you're looking for a place where you're retiring (i.e. you don't need to center your life around a job), there are a LOT of options that aren't overcrowded. And that's not just inland... Big swaths of the central coast aren't overpopulated because there aren't enough jobs to justify it, and then you have beautiful places that are only slightly inland like Paso Robles. I'd gladly retire someplace like Paso. 

I won't deny that the cost of living is terrible, and the taxes are ruinous, but outside of that, California is pretty perfect. Especially with all that delicious, delicious Mexican food ;-) 

A dry 122 degree day is just as miserable if not more than a humid 95 degree. Also: no water, no beaches and borders Mexico. Hard pass.

I had a business trip a couple years ago that was a day in Phoenix followed by a day in Albuquerque, in the dead of summer. Phoenix was ~115 degrees. Albuquerque was mid-high 90s. 

I agree with you that the "but it's a dry heat" doesn't matter if you're in a place hot enough that it's a damn oven. But Albuquerque isn't like that, because of the elevation. You're a mile up.