ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
East Coast winters are a hell of a lot more miserable than West Coast ones. I spent a winter in Halifax while I went to Fleet School. You start with rain and then you wake up to 3 ft of snow....and temperatures that got down to -20C with a wet wind coming off of the North Atlantic. I'll take the rain and wind of the West Coast over the Rain, snow, gales and cold of the east any day....mind you they do have nice summers and Autumns.
I spent a chunck of summer in Halifax - hated it. Too hot asnd humid.
With winter, at least the east coast houses seem to be built for winter. Houses out here aren't well built for winter - or at least the older homea aren't.