On Jan 24, 6:27*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:24:39 -0800, JR North
wrote:

There is nothing on the east coast south of Maine that comes close to
Chuck's boating area for beautiful scenery.That's true, but just like Maine it is too darn cold much of the time.
We spent 5 weeks cruising Maine during the summer of 2005 and by the
end of August *it was definitely time to be heading south again.

I have several neighbors here in SWFL who moved from Seattle. *How
many folks in Seattle have neighbors who moved there from FL?

Not that many. But if there are any people who disliked Florida enough
to move away they wouldn't find a more opposite place to go than the
Pacific NW.
Geographically, culturally, and politically of course, in addition to
the dramatic differences in weather and skin cancer rates. Old folks
with bad joints like to move to warm climates, so AZ and FLA get a lot
of migration of senior citizens from northern states.

Depending entirely on the type of boating one likes to do, some would
feel that boating could be described as "better" in one corner of the
country than the other- but there is no doubt that a typical day on the
boat will be very different
in the two environments.

Not that many bikinis up this way- but hey, most of us take our
sweaters and jackets off for at least a few weeks after the 4th of
July. :-)