Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.

• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a bit is a touch different than opening your front door and walking into satan’s armpit

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a vivid comparison, thanks

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it does reach 110, that’s only for a day or two a year. Most summer days it’s below 100.

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  • TotalFat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Texas also sits next to a very warm body of water. Swimming in it is like bathing in a pool of hot sweat. The humidity is off the charts. I could get a general read on the comfort level by which direction the planes were landing and taking off. They always head into the wind. One direction meant high temps plus high humidity, and the other meant less off both due to a cool front blowing in from up north.

    California has the opposite. Sure most of it is a desert, but the cool Pacific Ocean cools the air and contributes a lot less humidity.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Houston is beyond trans-Floridian levels of humidity, that’s true. DFW can be humid to people from dryer places, but it’s very much not Floridian and generally dry enough that, for instance, sweating works how it’s supposed to. El Paso is literally in a desert.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As someone from the northern Mississippi basin y’all are crazy to live there. I’ll stick to my wet cool climates. I can handle the frigid weeks and the snow isn’t that bad

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Inland Imperial who fucks around in the high desert a lot, even with the heat a bit of shade can drop the effective temp down quite a bit. Its the sun that is dangerous really, or maybe im just that much of a pale assed motherfucker IDK.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No CA really is comfortable outside of some low deserts and high mountainous areas. Stuff stays pretty much in the middle year round.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The dry heat in socal is really not that bad, especially in the shade. It’s nowhere near as brutal as the stifling humidity in the east, south, etc.

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• bibliotectress@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anywhere not on the coast or high in mountains, yes. I’m in a large valley, and summers can be pretty rough. Not Phoenix rough, but still rough.

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• JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  California is a big place.

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