exactly my sentiment... so why am i here? now its complicated. but at the time it seemed a helluva lot better than the 8 month winters i lived through when i was in central NY. so i went from one extreme to the other.
its amazing, when i first got to So. California 7 years ago, i coulda sworn it was a 3rd world country (and i've lived in one before). There were rolling power outages, warnings on the tv/radio not to drink the tap water, and it took me 1.5 hours to drive 35 miles each way to work. good times...