A Baby Bear Climate

 We all remember what happened when Goldilocks sat down to try the three bears’ porridge. The first one she tasted was too hot!  The second one she tasted was too cold!  But the third was “Just right!” and she ate it all up.

Here in the Triangle area of North Carolina, we have a Baby Bear Climate.  It’s not too hot and it’s not too cold.  It’s just right!

People from Up North move here because it’s warmer.  They’re tired of the short, dark days of a Northern winter.  They’re tired of shoveling snow.  The Triangle does get an occasional snowfall or ice storm, but when that happens, we all stay home and enjoy a day off.  Seriously, one snowflake or sometimes even the threat of a snowflake will shut down the schools and pretty much everything else.

Meanwhile, people  from Florida move here because it’s cooler.  The Carolinas have four seasons.  Fall and spring are glorious; winters are mild.  Admittedly, summers are hot and humid, but relief can be found at our beautiful beaches or high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Some of the people immigrating from other states we call “half-backs.”  These are people from Up North, where it’s too cold, who then moved to Florida, where it’s too hot.  After a couple of years in Florida, they move halfway back, and find happiness here in God’s Country.

It’s easy to be a cheerleader for a place with a Baby Bear Climate!  Come for a vacation — and then find a way to stay.  That’s what I did!