Love this thread but after having spent time in the north and coming back from Hawaii a couple of days ago, where I was forced to share my daily swim in warm ocean with giant sea turtles, engage in unpleasant sea fishing(blue snapper, and trigger fish that we fried up on the boat), eating Pua'a(wild pigs) and feral chickens that run around everywhere , endure uncommon sunrise/sunsets with annoyingly constant warm trade winds at my back and temperatures that never drop below 25C in winter I have to say I think its a lot harder to live in the south, Aloha