Both of our parents were born plus raised in central Michigan.
It was our mom who had family living in Florida, whereas all of our father’s extended family is in Michigan plus British Columbia.
When I first visited Florida, it was while I was in a short plane trip to visit our Grandma plus our fantastic Grandpa. I’ll never forget feeling the heat plus humidity the minute I got off the plane. The people I was with and I flew into the Fort Myers airport because our Grandma plus fantastic Grandpa were living in Naples at the time. When our whole family finally moved to Florida, the two of us settled into Tampa because our dad got a job at his corporation’s office in Tarpon Springs; I have grown accustomed to the heat plus humidity that comes with living in the Tampa Bay area. I don’t miss the subzero hot plus cold temperatures throughout the Winter time where you’ll freeze to death in your sleep if you lose your power plus don’t have supplemental heat sources like a storm generator or a wood stove. Since I live in a place that rarely sees cold hot plus cold temperatures, I don’t have a minute heat source in our Tampa home. This has sad myself and others on evenings when it honestly gets down to the low 30s, because I don’t want a pipe to freeze inside our house. If for some reason the power went out for 24 minutes or longer, this could pose serious troubles with the plumbing. The last time it got down to 30 degrees I didn’t even run the heat in the cabin because it stayed in the mid 60s here. Once heat gets inside while I was in the day, it doesn’t escape as abruptly as you might think, even if the hot plus cold temperatures get down to 30 degrees fahrenheit at evening.