Machka 

I live in Tasmania. Tasmania has very cool summers. If you don't like hot summers, move to Tasmania or a place like it. Edmonton might be another good choice.

Roody

Waiting at a traffic light, in the hot sun, surrounded by concrete and cars as far as you can see is the worst. I do more riding at night during hot spells.

Also, I know shady routes and breezy routes that take me most places I need to go. We have tree-shaded MUPs that go near to most destinations, and they are truly a blessing during the heat waves.

1989Pre 

We have only a 90-day growing season up here, but it is my time to shine. It rarely goes up to 85 degrees at the mid-coast from mid june to mid sept, and the cycling is heaven, with about 3,000 feet of climbing gain on a 60-miler.

StarBiker

Trees are everywhere, but they are mostly off the road, or sidewalk. I bike mostly on the sidewalk. Just safer, and everything has been ramped for miles, and miles.
But those other factors, and even all the roads, and parking lots are adding a lot of heat.
Places like Falls Road, or the very pretty Roland Park are nice, but they aren't where I go for anything.
If you can afford Roland Park.........

StarBiker

Great place in the summer, freeze your but in the winter. That's the problem, not to many places are temperate in the US. Places that most people could afford to live.
San Francisco would be my pick, but no way could I afford the place.

tandempower

Although I love tree shade, and I constantly marvel at how much the temperature drops as you move between a sunny, paved area and a tree-shaded area, especially a forest; I also have a strange love of the solar-powered saunas where you can watch the heat shimmering off pavement and cars. If you have sufficient drinking water, you can get health benefits from sweating it out in the heat. Some people are more prone to heat stroke than others, I think, so you have to be careful, and of course the summer midday sun will burn you and/or initiate cancer at the cellular level; but if you can deal with all those negatives, there's a certain natural-artificial benefit from soaking up that solar-powered heat radiating off the pavement and steel.

cooker

I live uphill from work, so with a lot of self-discipline, I can mostly coast to work on the hottest days and still avoid showering at work. In fact if I have to take public transit to work on a hot day, I sweat more than if I'd cycled. I shower before I leave home, and make sure not to have coffee until I have cooled off.

StarBiker

I just peddled my but off for a couple miles. It took 30 minutes in the AC to cool off. And as long as I was peddling I was fine.

I usually cruise. I am not always moving fast. (I use platform peddles)

It poured, but I was in my local Target. Businesses are everywhere. I can stop anywhere and get a bite, a drink, cool off, and I am not in the City.

Yes, getting into wooded areas is noticeably cooler. Also damper, and bugs......

dedhed

I hardly live in an arid climate and often do a load of wash and hang it on the line before bed for it to dry the next day while I'm at work. Nothing has ever mildewed or "spoiled". Sometimes I might even forget it in the washer until the next evening and then hang it out.

tandempower

Do you hang it outdoors or indoors in the air-conditioning? What is the temperature where it is hanging? Do you know the relative humidity?

dedhed

Outdoors on the clothesline. Temperature - anywhere from 30-100F Humidity - anywhere from 30% - 90%
Whatever the weather is that day. Sometimes it's sunny, sometimes it's cloudy, sometimes it's windy, sometimes not. Sometimes it gets rained on. Once I leave for work, it's in for whatever mother nature brings.

Here's what it's sitting in now. Tomorrow is high of 83 and partly sunny.
Humidity 84% Temperature 66
Wind Speed Calm
Barometer 30.12 in (1019.7 mb)
Dewpoint 61°F (16°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Last update 4 Jul 9:52 pm CDT

Machka 

+1

That's how we dry our laundry. We don't have a clothes dryer ... only a few people in Australia do. But we've all got clothes lines outside and/or drying racks inside.

I don't leave things in the washer more than a couple hours because they can wrinkle or start to take on a funny smell, but if I put them on the drying rack inside or on the clothes line outside (even if it is drizzling a bit) they will eventually dry and they're fine.

In fact, if there's any kind of breeze outside, they dry quite quickly out there. Breezy days are great for doing the bedding!

wipekitty

Interesting you mention Edmonton. I was obsessed with moving there for a while (it never happened), in part because the climate seemed my speed.

Looking for new jobs in new places, then moving, has always been my and my partner's solution of choice when we do not like an area or get bored with it. I'm not sure why, but people find it rather odd that we have lived so many places (and our count is only up to six US states, each.)

Machka 

We've lived a lot of places too ... and I have lived in Edmonton twice. I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of places to go!

We're like you ... don't like a place, get tired of a place ... and we move. I've lived in 4 Canadian Provinces and 2 Australian States, and I've moved within those provinces and states as well. In fact, we're getting close to yet another move! It's starting to feel like time again.

Walter S

I would always rather be hot than cold. Wear next to nothing and sweat as necessary. Managing how sweaty you get is not necessary like in the cold.

tandempower

Sometimes having and expressing negative feelings toward something is part of a process of subjectively transforming your experience of it into something that's ultimately positive. If you moved every time you had a bad day or bad feeling where you live, you'd always be moving.

Machka 

Excellent!!

You're speaking to one who has moved a whole lot of times. Keeps life interesting!

tandempower

Surely there are times you are unhappy when you don't want to move or be told to move because you're unhappy that day or moment.

Machka 

I'm not unhappy very often.

I move and travel lots because I want to ... because I am a restless person who wants to see and do more. It's great for gaining new experiences and perspectives.

tandempower

And when you are, do you enjoy hearing someone tell you to move because you're unhappy?

If you missed someplace you once lived and you told Rowan you were sad because you couldn't easily go visit something you were thinking about, would you want him to tell you to move there if you miss it, or would you expect him to understand there there are nuances where you can sometimes be unhappy about something without wanting to move somewhere else?

Machka 

We often considered moving to places we have lived and liked or to new places. Suggesting a move to me is a good and exciting thing. 😀😀😀

StarBiker

Not me. I would take 45 over 90 in a second.

tandempower

Even as a response to you feeling unhappy of something at a particular moment?

Machka 

Yep ... cheers me right up to think about moving or travel.

tandempower

Why don't you move to another thread where I won't read your posts and find them dishonest. Does that cheer you up?