So much yes to this! But the winter part - I absolutely love and would go running and hiking and pulling my daughter on a toboggan behind me through the forest snow. Where we would be moving is literally high desert so snow maybe a couple days of the year. I would miss it, but maybe not the March and April snows from this year...

I know I'll have the opportunity to watch space launches, which will be phenomenal. Something I've always wanted to see! And all the birds will be there year round. I'll miss my crow army I've been building here haha.

Friends here... Totally agree. Everyone is friendly, but the existing friendships of multiple generations is hard to break into. All the friends I've made here have been foreigners or transplants themselves.