Ok then:-) give me your home in TX and take mine:o)), here winter, (and I mean REAL winter with blizzards, snowstorms that struck so hard you can't even get out of home, car won't start anyway, snowfalls of 1 meter +, shovelling, cool winds and temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius), here winter lasts 8 months, from the end of October through the beginning of May... And it is ALWAYS humid here, our heating bills during these months are outrageously expensive, plus, we have to plug the A/C sometimes during summer time because it can get even more humid when it's kind of hot outside.

Don't forget we also have to adjust our clothing according to these temperature, wearing a coat that makes me look like a marshmallow woman or Mr Muffler (and freeze to death and catch a cold every now and then anyway) almost all year long is far from what I'd call paradise!:-)

Usually strangers like snow because they're not stuck with it all year long, so it's kind of fun to come here as a tourist and ski and take some sleigh rides, and skate but once they live here, they find it much more difficult. I know some people here who like winter though, but they're usually of the sporty kind (skiers, ice skaters, ice fishers (yuck!:-)). For my part, I am much more a summer kind of person : swimming, walking outside without freezing to death, jogging at sunset, hiking, rollerblading, doing pic nics, reading outside and I like the heat.:o))) Frankly, even if it's beautiful out here, if I didn't have anyone, I'd fly away in no time, even though you're more likely to have tornadoes and other stuff like that in your area. There are more chances you get struck by winter than by a tornado, right?!:o)

Have a great day and...enjoy the heat while I'm freezing!:o)
Gen