I moved with my family to the South when I was in elementary school.
My parents were splitting up and my mother’s mom and dad lived down here.
It took a lot of adjustment getting used to the weather down here at first. For one, I lost the ability to experience the change in seasons. I always used to love watching the leaves go from green to auburn and finally brown. It was such an amazing thing to experience every year, even after knowing that the trees would eventually shed their leaves and look barren for the next 6 months or so. But then the onset of snowfalls and blizzards would bring us a beautiful blanket of white to the ground around us. Finally, whenever the winter would finally stop and spring would come, we would see the green once again in life to start over as the year begins anew. Living in the South we don’t get that change of seasons, nor do we get the cold weather during the winter that requires using a heating system indoors. I can go for months at a time without turning on a furnace living in the south. Sometimes I really just use the space heater if it gets particularly cold at night while I’m trying to sleep. There are a lot of people like me who live down here and barely use the heating system in the winter. They just don’t have a constant need for one like the people who live up north. You can’t survive in the winter northern regions without having indoor heat. Even if that just means using a wood stove or a fireplace.