[Tilted Irish Kilt]

ChildOfThe60s :" Many people have gone to Florida in March or October or November and thought it was wonderful.
Our suggestion is always to go there in the dead of summer make sure you understand what you’re getting into.
People from up North don’t realize that the summers may seem acceptable for a couple of years,
.. Florida doesn’t have four seasons, it has one and a half seasons."

Good advice there (!), to remain in Florida during the summer season, with the heat and humidity, and experience it for yourself with, and also without air conditioning.
While the article says New York, it doesn't specify New York City as 'Miserable's home location.
Once you get 40 minutes out of NYC, the political climate changes to more Conservative political leanings
with just a few urban areas of liberalism (ie.: Buffalo, Syracuse, Ithaca, Albany).
Too may people equate anything 'New York' to NYC and it just isn't true.
Other than in urban NYC, there is clean air, no noise pollution that starts at 4 AM through 1 AM, and we have orchards, vineyards, farming and industry.

[cherry]

NYS is a wonderful state and just like California, its owned by the big city and its election machine....most of NYS is very pretty, lots of farmland and orchards and rivers and lakes and I miss it to this day....over 40 yrs...