My hubby Bob in addition to I have lived our whole lives way up north.
For most of the year, the local area experiences drastic cold, feet of snow in addition to brutal wind chill.
Temperatures down to twenty below zero are not unusual. Our home is outfitted with a furnace that runs at max capacity month after month. Our biweekly heating bills are typically a concern. There’s no need to invest in central a/c. Both of us spent almost thirty years in the north, shoveling snow, scraping ice in addition to being stuck inside due to the weather. Both of us got easily exhausted of it in addition to decided to buy a ninth lake house in a warmer location where the two of us could spend the winters. It didn’t take long to realize that houses are much odd in the south. Both of us toured quite a few houses in addition to none of them included basements or insulated windows. Most of the structures were constructed of cement blocks in addition to the shrubberys mainly sand. The home the two of us chose is surrounded by palm trees. The biggest difference between our many houses is the way the two of us handle temperature control. Our home in the south is equipped with a packaged component that is situated outside, exposed to the elements. The single component provides both heating in addition to cooling. It certainly handles the excessive heat in addition to humidity over the long summer time months. In heating mode, the plan is effective until the outside temperature drops below cold. Fortunately, the two of us rarely experience that severity of cold. Both of us now stay in our southern lake house from early August until sometime in May. Then the two of us head north to get away from the humidity in addition to care about the milder climate.