Saskatchewan: no smog, full seasons, real winters with real snow for real hardy men. The summers are hellish, though, but well, no place's perfect this side of Eternity.
Hard to spell, easy to draw. It's a rectangle for those that don't know.
I have to say I admire your passion for your area of the world. I just checked the climate averages for Regina, and anyone who can, with a straight face, say that the climate there is better than coastal southern California probably ought to work for the Saskatchewan Tourism Board.
San Diego weather is really nice. Plus, The Brigantine has excellent fish tacos and creme brulee. I do prefer their Del Mar location though.
Actually, seriously. Any type from traditional neighborhood, like Casa Bianci in Eagle Rock, now approaching 70 years of operation, to high end Angeli, part of Joe Mozza's restaurant empire, to Zachary's in Oakland, to very Italian style pizza, representing regions from Naples to Milan, that have been springing up here. I ate a good selection of pizza in Italy when I backpacked across the country and got to know its very different regional approaches. NY had good pizza. We have mo' betta.
Theres always more than meets the eye. This is how propaganda works.
You are correct that it is quite nice in Arizona, although anywhere in the Sonoran Desert is going to have very hot summers, sometimes brutally hot. In Yuma there are weeks in the summer during which the temp does not drop below 90 F, and it'll be 110-115 F during the days often in the middle of the summer. I live in Tucson, which is also in the Sonoran desert. It's quite a bit higher than Yuma, about 2300 ft in elevation here as opposed to 100 in Yuma (which is not too far from the Colorado River "Delta" and the Gulf of California). Tucson shares many climate characteristics with Yuma, but it's a little cooler here. However, we did see a 110 F high in September this year, as well as a 103 F high in October. Summer started early, stayed hot, and lingered into fall this year. Here in Tucson, for about 4 months it's HOT, for about 8 months it's absolutely glorious. In coastal SoCal, it doesn't get nearly as hot in the summer, so it would probably get my vote for a better climate than here, but it's hard to complain about the climate in Arizona while all my friends who live up north are shoveling and sliding about. I did the northern climate thing with 15 years in Minnesota, and I have to say this is definitely preferable.
My experience is that it's cigarette smoke with high nicotine and 300-600 added chemicals that stains and leaves a stale smell.
It's why people are fleeing both NY and
It's comical to say that anyone has the absolute best anything. Have they really compared it to every podunk town's pizzeria across the country? I mean, really, there's some really fantastic cooking going on everywhere across the country. And, what the hell does "best" mean. I might just not like what a Californian thinks is great pizza. I definitely don't agree with what a Chicagoan thinks is great pizza.
I logged on this morning to 63 alerts. I was afraid to check out this thread, because I thought that I must have pissed some people off to get that many alerts, ha ha.
It's comical to say that anyone has the absolute best anything. Have they really compared it to every podunk town's pizzeria across the country? I mean, really, there's some really fantastic cooking going on everywhere across the country. And, what the hell does "best" mean. I might just not like what a Californian thinks is great pizza. I definitely don't agree with what a Chicagoan thinks is great pizza.
You guys just all need to come down here to Alabama. Unless you can work remotely, you'll probably be taking a pay cut, but we still have lots of nice houses below 100,000. You guys can stay in my barn till you get on your feet. But, if you are still here in the Spring, I will need you to help out with planting.
We have the Briary, and a tobacco store of some sort in every little strip mall. if you are nice about it, most places will let you smoke your pipe. If you get bored you can drive down to some of the nicest beaches in the world. Or, spend a day hiking the mountains. If you are going to hunt my deer, just leave the dogs out of it. That's my pet peeve is people hunting deer with dogs. I've fired quite a few warning shots at guys cutting through my land with dogs.
Oh, and don't piss in the ashtrays. You can just leave all of those big city habits behind you. This is civilization.
