The number is five and we’re now in March so I’m thinking I can flip the thermostat over to cooling
I’m not shy about my motivations for moving home. This region is where I was born and raised. It’s also the region that I took totally for granted while I was growing up. But I suppose that many kids have a grass is always greener on the other side mentality when they are young. My big complaint was that my home region was boring, too hot and needed too much air conditioning. Those are some pretty feeble reasons to leave the area. But leave I did as I chose a university way up north. I wanted to be near a big city with excitement, culture and a white Christmas. I got all of that and a dorm room with really intense radiant heating. I enjoyed the drastic change initially. However, even as I was finishing up my studies, the winters were taking a toll on me. Why I took that job and ended up staying up north for another decade is still a bit of a puzzle to me. But as soon as I got the chance to transfer to my home region, I was all over it. I couldn’t leave winter, gas furnaces, snow and ice any quicker. So yea, I moved home because I wanted a winter where the heat pump stayed quiet. And I got it. I actually have kept count this winter of the number of time I needed heating from the heat pump. The number is five and we’re now in March so I’m thinking I can flip the thermostat over to cooling. Man, I’m so thankful to have this sort of mild winter again and I’m never leaving it.