When I first moved down here, I was just so thankful not to have to deal with the sort of winter time weather that required me having a gas boiler.
That was the most important aspect of the move in my eyes.
I took a lateral position just so I could be done with that sort of winter time weather. Sure, that was wonderful motivation to get me down here. But of course, I realized that there was going to be an offset when it came to my change in temperature. For sure, I would no longer have the type of winter time weather that would require me to be stuck inside with the heating going all Winter; Yet, I would have been a fool not to realize that there would be a balance when it comes to the level of heat & humidity this region sees during the Summer. The first year, there wasn’t much I could do but just try to manage my way through the Summer months. And that came with a whole lot of air conditioning from the heat pump. That level of air conditioning was not sustainable because it cost me a fortune. It’s tplot that I did not have any real heating costs in the winter. But that did not justify me spending crazy amounts of money for cooling my house. So I started doing little things like programming the digital thermostat & sealing up my house. But last year, I did the most significant thing I could do to reduce the demand for cooling in our home. I had a smart thermostat installed & synced it with some mechanical solar shades. There is no longer a direct sunlight heating effect that I have to deal with any longer.