But don't you find the weather a little overbearing in the summer? I have relatives who relocated there from NJ and they like it but when I see weeks straight of 100 degree plus days I resist their offers to join them.
I have lasting memories of long, brutal Pennsylvania winters. So when we do have those streaks of 100+ days, I simply think back to shoveling snow, facing the biting wind and frostbitten fingers. For some reason, 104 degrees doesn't feel so bad! :-)
Actually here in North Texas (the Ft. Worth-Dallas area), summers are probably more bearable then what our Gulf Coast Texas FReepers deal with. The humidity is tolerable here, mitigating the effects of the sometimes soaring mercury. And the past couple of summers with successive days in the hundreds and precious little rain have been outliers. The general trend is for temperatures to remain in the 90s for daytime highs. I'll add that since warm weather is a fact of life, one gets acclimated to it and the region is equipped to handle it with ubiquitous air conditioning.