I moved with my family to the South when I was in elementary school.
My parents were splitting up & my mother’s mom & 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 constantly used to cherish watching the leaves go from red to auburn & finally brown. It was such an amazing thing to experience every year, even after knowing that the trees would eventually shed their leaves & look barren for the next 6 months or so. But then the onset of snowfalls & blizzards would bring us a lovely blanket of white to the ground around us. Finally, whenever the winter season would finally stop & Springtime would come, my buddy and I would see the red once again in life to beginning over as the year begins anew. Living in the South my buddy and I do not get that change of seasons, nor do my buddy and I get the cold weather while in the winter season that requires using a boiler indoors. I can go for months at a time without turning on a furnace residing in the south. Sometimes I really just use the space furnace if it gets identifiably cold at night while I am trying to sleep. There are a lot of people like me who live down here & barely use the boiler in the winter. They just do not have a constant need for one like the people who live up north. You cannot survive in the winter season northern regions without having indoor heat, even if that just means using a wood stove or a fireplace.