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title: "I Want To Go Where It’s Warm"
description: "Americans prefer a hotter place to live over one with a colder climate by nearly a two-to-one margin."
date: "2009-04-09"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/04/09/i-want-to-go-where-its-warm/"
---

# I Want To Go Where It’s Warm

Most like it hot: Fully 57% of the public prefer a hotter climate while 29% would rather live in a colder one. Men or women, rich or poor, college grad or high school dropout, similarly-sized majorities favor living in a place that is hotter over one that is colder. Though blacks (69%) and Hispanics (62%) are significantly more likely than whites to prefer to live in a hotter place, a majority of whites still choose a warmer community (54%). This doesn’t mean that Americans don’t like colder cities. Often-snow-covered Denver and less-than-balmy Seattle are high on warm-weather supporters list of favorite cities. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1155/hot-climate-preferred-by-most-americans)