If crisp cream was my gov, I’d be looking at alternatives too. Oh wait, I could never live in the northeast.
Disclaimer: Bless all you brave fighting souls that live up there, how do you handle all that COLD????
layers of clothes, wood and coal stoves are good too. Humid cold is as bad (not as bad to me) as humid summer. I lived in southwest MO for 13 years in homes built as summer houses (no exterior wall insulation) and without AC until 2010. You learn, you adapt. I love dry heat and dry cold. My hair likes humidity, though.
I don’t like liberal cities no matter what their temperate zone. They won’t survive the Great Earthquake.