I should have listened.
I was lucky enough to be a travel writer in my twenties; I got to live my familiar, nomadic life. I moved around a lot as a child as a result of my father’s task. My mother constantly dreaded moving, although I loved it. One of my number one things about moving to a new region was experiencing a new temperature. Now that I’m an adult, I’ve moved for this exact purpose many times. I tried my hand in a sizzling temperature in the US for about a year, but found that no matter how several times I had my Heating and Air Conditioning system took care of, and how often I took breaks just to be in the air conditioner, I just couldn’t get cool during the summer. So, I moved to a colder temperature in the center of the country. I was truly unprepared for a extreme winter; my neighbors warned me to have an Heating and Air Conditioning contractor inspect my boiler before winter season started, although I thought they were just trying to scare their new neighbor. I should have listened. I’ll never forget answering the door for my Heating and Air Conditioning contractor during a snowstorm, after my furnace had gone kaput in the middle of the night. Needless to say, I only survived one winter season in this temperature. After residing in twenty odd states over the last thirty years of my life, I’ve decided that a mild temperature is where I belong; Cool evenings and afternoons, with some seasonal changes, work best for my lifestyle. But, no matter where I go, I’ve learned the importance of making sure my Heating and Air Conditioning system can keep up with the temperature; you don’t know how dependent you are on your boiler or air conditioner until it doesn’t work!