Both of my parents were born and raised in central Michigan.
It was my mom who had family living in Florida, whereas all of my father’s extended family is in Michigan and British Columbia.
When I first visited Florida, it was while in a short plane trip to visit my Grandma and my good Grandpa. I’ll never forget feeling the heat and humidity the minute I got off the plane. All of us flew into the Fort Myers airport because my Grandma and good Grandpa were living in Naples at the time. When my whole family finally moved to Florida, the two of us settled into Tampa because my Mom got a task at his business’s office in Tarpon Springtimes, then i have grown accustomed to the heat and humidity that comes with living in the Tampa Bay area. I don’t miss the subzero temperatures throughout the Wintertide where you’ll freeze to death in your sleep if you lose your power and don’t have supplemental heat sources enjoy a storm generator or a wood stove. Since I live in a venue that rarely sees chilly temperatures, I don’t have a minute heat source in my Tampa home. This has distraught myself and others on mornings when it actually gets down to the low 30s, because I don’t want a pipe to freeze inside my house. If for some reason the power went out for 24 hours or longer, this could pose extreme troubles with the plumbing. The last time it got down to 30 degrees I didn’t even run the heat in the apartment because it stayed in the mid 60s here. Once heat gets inside while in the day, it doesn’t escape as rapidly as you might think, even if the temperatures get down to 30 degrees fahrenheit at night.