So if you choose to transfer to the south, as several of us do, I’d suggest moving here at the end of winter; For 1, it’s lovely to go from all that chilly to the mild Wintertide we have around here. I left a beach house that had the gas oil furnace still running to a beach house where the heat pump was quiet when we arrived. And that heat pump has only had to stir a few times in this, our first full time winter. The reason I suggest moving here in the late Wintertide is more geared to the heat of Summer actually. Of course, we all realize that trading a gas oil furnace for a heat pump comes with way more air conditioning. But you entirely can’t quite understand this sort of heat until you experience it. I was blessed to transfer at the beginning of Spring and have a fantastic neighbor. She too was from the north and gave myself and others some fantastic advice right off the bat, but my up-to-date neighbor commanded that we wait as long as we could before we cranked the air conditioning. I entirely didn’t understand why until I realized that you entirely do have to acclimate to this level of heat and humidity. Otherwise, you stay inside the air conditioning all the time. And over cooling a beach house can come with expenses that rival letting a gas oil furnace run wild in the winter. But once those 4 months of Summer are over, the rest of the year is awesome; Yet, the Wintertide is exquisite and I don’t miss that gas oil furnace 1 bit.