My life changed quite a bit when I moved from the northern midwest to the subtropics along the southeastern seaboard.
I was used to living on land that was made up of boreal forests stretching down from Canada.
We had a lot of pine trees and lower temperature vegetation. The first thing I noticed when I moved down here was the drastic change in temperatures year round. Even though our summer weather in July and August got up to 110 degrees on some of the hottest days on record, the sun intensity wasn’t comparable to what it is down here. It feels like standing underneath a heating element in an oven. I have to be careful to wear enough sunscreen or I can get extremely painful sunburns. It’s no surprise I have met quite a few people who are natives of this place who also had to get skin cancer removed at some point. The one nice thing about this warm climate is not really needing indoor heat during the winter. Sure, it’s nice to have a basic electric furnace if the weather gets into the low 40s at night, but it’s not like it is up north where heat is a constant necessity in the winter. I was using a wood burning setup at the time because it supplemented my old gas furnace. You have to maintain wood burning setups to prevent from burning your house down inadvertently. If you don’t keep the chimney clean and unrestricted, you could cause a fire or prevent smoke from safely exiting your house. Excess smoke is poisonous in high enough concentrations.