I have a friend who decided to hightail it out of our city.
I have lived in this city for over thirty years, and I do not have plans to leave it, mostly because just about all the other cities in this state are more expensive than here. I am extremely interested in semi-retiring in 2025, so I can’t be moving somewhere more expensive, that’s for sure. Anyway, my friend didn’t care about all that, and he moved to the most western state in the union! He lives in this beautiful city, and it has amazing weather. In fact, it is most famous for its weather, and he has stopped using air conditioning altogether. In addition, he almost never needs the heating, either! He and I were on a video call the other day, and he seems so much happier than he used to. He confessed to me that he has absolutely no need for a/c or the furnace whatsoever. At this point, all he ever turns on are the ceiling fans in the summer and a couple of space heaters in the winter. I cannot even imagine such a thing. When you grow up in the southeast, your air conditioner is like your best buddy – you wouldn’t even think of going through life without it. It makes him really happy, though, because he says he spends most of the year with open windows and even leaves the back door open most of the time. He has a screen door and when he leaves the back door open, the breeze blowing through is like Mother nature’s air conditioning.