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I'm in the market for a house and friends make fun of me when I say I do not want to live in Southern Europe because of climate change, even though I miss it.

Whenever I'll buy, I have to consider that in 30 years it's going to be hotter and I'll be 65 years old.

I used to live in Italy, it's going to be up to 39C in Rome the next two weeks.

I'll miss the sea and the food by staying north, though we'll be planting cantaloupes and prickly pears here in England in 3 decades.

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I beg to differ. I think in 3 decades the climate in England will be atlantic storm after storm after storm, year round. Basically totally miserable. Occasionally a spanish plume will find it's way to England and kill off vulnerable pensioners. Your prickly pears will just get drowned by the constant deluge of water and floods, your cantaloupes will get infected with humidity loving fungus.

Oh, I didn't mean it is possible to escape climate change. It's going to be hell for everybody.

It has already been very hot up north too. 38.7 for England. On top of that places like England have famously high humidity.

You should go for altitude, not latitude. Far more predictable.

Northern Spain. Asturias, Galicia etc have temperate summers and winters and the heat is only an hours drive south.

Never had the chance to visit. But by sea I meant the Mediterranean one. If not for climate change, I'd just love a house anywhere on that coastline.

Yep. In Asturias you can be glad if you got three days in row without rain and temperatures above 20 degree. It rains a lot due to the Atlantic influence and in combination with the hight mountains? Nice when you don't like cold winters and don't like warm summers. You can do sports in short clothes in mid February but don't expect a long, warm and dry summer - it will not happen.

A lot people like it but I would miss actual summer.

You can always rent a place in Leon with a pool and go dry out in July/August :)

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