re: Small towns where it's cool in summer and cheap to rent (ideas?)

Sounds amazing

I don't know about cheap but blue ridge ga usually stays below 80 year round.

Idaho Panhandle.
Libby, MT
Rural CO
Michigan and WI can get steamy but we spent a week in way north WI on a lake. It was perfect weather. But mosquitoes and I’m not sure what’s cheap out there for rent these days.
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I haven’t looked at rental rates, but get above 3-4k feet in WNC.

Alberta

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How is NE too far to drive but Idaho isn’t?

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I'm in Central Texas. Maine is like an extra 8 hours.

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Looks like this week Kalamazoo maxes out at 80 and the lows are in the high 50s

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Kalamazoo is absolutely awful

No reason to ever be south of traverse city if you’re in Michigan

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Michigan and WI can get steamy but we spent a week in way north WI on a lake. It was perfect weather. But mosquitoes and I’m not sure what’s cheap out there for rent these days.

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Yeah if you want to be on a decent lake, “cheap” is unlikely. If you wanted to just be in a random small town, cheap is doable but I’d get bored as hell personally if I wasn’t on or had easy access to a decent lake.

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Posted by meeple ? ? on 9/25/23 at 8:29 am to ghost2most

Some small towns between Jackson and Bozeman. Just drove this a week ago. Hwy 32 and 33 between Ashton, ID and Victor, ID.

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My cousin owned Grumpys Goat Shack in Victor. Closed last year. Great place.

I’m probably getting a summer place near flagstaff or in Ouray in a few years

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How cool is southern Appalachia during summer? I have only been during fall and winter TBH.

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We can see NC mtns from our house in Upstate SC (to borrow a concept from Sarah Palin). We are in the mountains as far as SC goes. We normally go to MT for summers but didn’t last year. And this year we were here first week of July and got back a week ago. Out immediate stop before returning here was Baton Rouge and stayed a night NE of Birmingham on way. Point being: the temperature difference was marked. Like 20 degrees.

But it still gets hotter than balls in thick of summer. The main differences are: evenings and mornings are a lot cooler here, and the suffering is a smaller portion of the year. Winters are usually still mild. And although Louisiana was less humid this summer, the humidity difference is normally huge between here and there.

ETA: but as mentioned, to 30-45 minutes north of here and it’s a lot cooler. But also not cheap.