Heat is frustrating. Its nice when you're playing outside outdoors but it makes sitting still or sleeping a pain in the a**, especially if your bedroom is upstairs. I use a window unit in addition to my central air, and bear in mind that its still 15-20F cooler here than AZ and NM.
When I was a kid I spent a month in Albuquerque with some relatives for a reunion. It was a beautiful, stunning part of the country -- a treasure, untainted by big-city pollution or the urban decay that's so prevalent in the eastern half of the country, but the monster-sized critters trolling the neighborhood were enough to make me miss the harshness of freezing temperatures, temperatures that kill off a sufficient quantity of the insect population each year (except those resilient mosquitoes).
California has a pleasing climate though. Its mild most of the time. Unfortunately, the water pollution gave all of them a brain disorder -- no one with a shred of sanity would elect Nancy Pelosi. I could probably live in the northern 1/4th of the state if it broke away and became independent or joined Oregon. I'd move to Redding, become a writer, and chill out.
Utah's not bad.
http://www.vonnegutweb.com/archives/arc ... award.html
WE ARE America’s Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.
[The "socialism" Vonnegut is referring to is a populist, egalitarian variety, as opposed to the out of touch douchebaggery practiced by liberal elites on the coasts.]