I know a lot of people on here think I hate heat. But I dont I cope well with anything up to 31/32. Its over that that it simply becomes frankly a nightmare to do anything. Dry heat becomes like a furnace, humid heat becomes like a steam room.

I dont think you can explain the intensity of the heat, every Pom we have ever had come out will tell us they love heat, they adore it but in actual fact when they arrive they had absolutely no idea what its like here

Eating outside, no way, mozzies flies.

I suppose you just try to "cope" with the weather from about November to March maybe longer. Get up early, avoid the sun, carry water, find shade, wear hats, sunblock, shirts etc. Avoid sport or anyting that requires energy.

Queensland has one bonus tho, when most of OZ has cooled from a furnace to peeing rain and cold , Qld has great winters most would enjoy, clear blue skies, almost no rain, temps in the low to mid 20's.

Voted for the " In the U.K, coulden't care less " category.

The weather / climate in Oz has absolutely no bearing on our desicion to migrate, funnily enough tho', it's one of the first things people mention, when they hear of our plans to migrate

" Oooh, all that lovely sunshine " etc, etc,

Having two small children to cover up with factor 50 at all times makes the appeal of the sunshine, a little less appealing!!!

And moving to hot, humid and sticky Cairns makes the problems of the sun and it's associated factors all the more real.

Keep out of the sun kids! I have no desire to look like a dried up leather handbag within the next 20 yrs!!!

Hey- you missed NZ off your poll !!
just to add my two pence worth - Weather didn't pay any part in our decision to move at all, we didn't really care, but now that we've been here nearly 3 years we're agreed that it's actually really nice to be able to wear t-shirts most of the year and would not necessarily want to move back to a colder country. you do adapt though and last winter was the first I've actaulty felt cold.

I have lived in & enjoyed living in a part of SA (Zululand) that can make SE Qld seem like NZ (it regularly gets a very humid 45+), so weather will be no problem to me.

Thats what I thought ! So should I sell all my ski gear before coming and kiss a winter holiday goodbye or is it a viable option ??

Kind of guessed that nobody would emigrate to NZ for the weather !!

well i never made it home after coming over to oz for a year. had different reasons for staying at the time, but i think the biggest factor which makes me think i probably won't go back is the weather (shhhhh, the girlfriend thinks it's because of her...) - but not directly because of the weather, more because it offers the ability to be in the open air more, and if you plan on going somewhere for a weekend you can pretty much guarantee that you won't be sitting inside while watching the rain all day.

Weather was a big plus in deciding to move. Wife suffers from Reynaulds syndrome and she's much better in the heat. The psoriasis is loads better too, with the high UV levels.

I was surprised at how COLD AND WET Perth is for a few months each year. That's right - bloody freezing at night for about 3 months.

I voted UK cos you dont give any other options, but for us the weather is THE major factor cos Mairi has arthritis which is not good in Northern Europe. When she had her last op in 2003 we mentioned to the doc that we were thinking about going back to OZ and he said Quote "thats better than any medicine or operation". As it is at the moment Mairi has 2-3 months of each year where she has difficulty walking, so for us the weather is 99% of the reason. The other 1% is that Mairi wants to see her family again after 6 years since the last time.

So far, from the OZ results:
70% love the weather and
30% think its a pain.

We have done the ski thing here. Trouble is it is soooo expensive. The season is very short, August is probably the most likely month there will be enough snow to ski. When Canada 3000 was in operation we could fly to Whistler for $999 each. For a fortnights skiing it was cheaper to fly to bloody Canada, than ski in OZ.

That's interesting and useful, as my daughter has just asked me if we can go down to the snowy mountains some time !

Take into account the trans tassie airfares you are probably better off going to the more spectacular scenery in Middle Earth.

Now she is really confused ! She just wants to throw snowballs at me again !!