The winter is the only time we get to be the hot spot in Canada. Warm ish in the winter and coolish in the summer. I love my always very moderate climate. I never freeze and I never burn up, just right all the time, well most of the time. I see the weather reports for across North America all the time and I have to say I'm with you, there are reasons I live here. Oh i watch the traffic reports on western Canadian cities too. Our Canadian cities are very small I can't imagine New York or LA or London or Paris. That stuff is all messed up. As Crocodile Dundee said, must be a friendly bunch, 8 million of them all wanting to live together.