I live in the south and have for nearly 25 years.
When I was 18 I moved south to attend college and ended up liking it so much that I stayed.
The fact that I haven’t had to deal with a gas furnace for all those years is still one of my top reasons for living where I do. But the fact that I live in the south was a blow to my old man. He was not pleased that I married a southern girl and started a family here. While he visits, it’s been a disappointment over the years. Why he still lives with that winter and all the heating costs not to mention the heating maintenance is beyond me. However, even though he’s been retired a while now, it’s hard to coax him to relocate to our area. For some reason he feels like it would be a completely different world for him. Like he would have to get accustomed to a heat pump. This is seriously one of his major concerns. Whenever I bring up just how much I love our HVAC equipment, he always responds that he simply doesn’t trust a heat pump. He says any one piece of HVAC equipment that can take care of the heating and cooling is suspect. Of course, dad has no idea what he is talking about. When I explained just how a heat pump worked, he told me I was making it up. I don’t know. It’s just so baffling that he has this warped perspective over a very fine piece of HVAC equipment.