But It Is So Hot!!!!

How Do You Handle the Heat?       

Many times when I am talking to people about Real Estate in Palm Springs they will ask me "How can you stand the heat in the Summers?"

Actually that question reminds me of when I lived in Colorado and friends and family from other parts of the country always acted as if I had moved to the arctic circle. So one year, for fun, I tracked the total number of days I was, in anyway, inconvenienced by the weather in Colorado.  It amounted to 11 days.  Out of 365 not too bad!

Palm Springs offers such a great lifestyle it is hard to complain about anything.  The summer temps are an integral part of the experience.  The first year you are here for the Summer you wear it as a badge of honor.  You'll tell those stories of how you survived the 120 degree day and lived to tell.  You will participate in the "dry heat jokes."  After the second year you'll notice that nothing over about 105-108 degrees really even seems remarkable to you anymore.  You realize that most of the time in Palm Springs the weather is just one thing- perfect!  Then by the third year you will be looking for a sweater if it falls below 72 degrees!  You really do get acclimated. I used to be pretty hot natured but I now find myself wearing sweaters when it is in the 60's.  A far cry from my childhood in New England where 70 degrees or above meant swimming wether.

The other thing that you have to understand about the heat is that it shapes your day in a new and really rather pleasant way.  It is sort of an enforced siesta.  No one seriously thinks you are going to go out in the peak of the days heat and show houses or put up signs or do much of anything. It is an automatic pass to stay inside. Often times I use it to get paperwork done or return phone calls. It is also great for going to the movies, enjoying a good book or even taking that siesta!

On the days when I need to do outdoor things and get out I do so early and finish those things before the peak hits. Palm Springs is not really a late town anyway so Summers see us rising earlier and enjoying the morning.  It is a whole different pace.... one that is not bad at all once you've given it a try.