I lived out in S. CA for 6 months...which was 5 months, 30 days too damned long. Too dry, way too dry. Hurts my sinuses. And I much prefer layers and all things that come with cold weather. I want snow. And yes, I know parts of AZ get snow but nope.
I can add clothes if I get cold but most of the country frowns on stripping down to bare skin when hot. And good sleeping weather for me and hubby is in the 50’s with loads of covers. A six cat night. (Play on the three dog night from the northwest pioneers that Three Dog Night, the band, took their name)
Well, if you’re happy, that’s good because it CAN get a bit crowded here.
But for the uninitiated: it isn’t dry at the coast and we have a lot of coastline. (Ask
CaraOC ) Up north a bit, we have nasty humid rivers, if you like nasty, humid weather. From where we live, we can leave early in the day, eat lunch in the snow (snow doesn’t “happen” here…snow is something we “go to”), then head toward the desert to dry off, then head to the shore and go on a cruise. A long day, for sure, but it can happen in one day.
Or you can sit in your pool and look at the snow on the mountains. One day, I took a bunch of teens, who had never seen an ocean, to the ocean, but they had no swimwear. (Think: the film Stand and Deliver.) So we drove up a highway and threw snowballs at each other, because they had never seen snow, either.
We don’t have hurricanes or tornadoes, but we do have earthquakes and fires. Also, blizzards...think Donner Pass.