My siblings and I grew up enjoying the California coast and all that came with it. My good friend and I spent time at the beach almost year-round and seldom anxious about any sort of winter season weather; When I was in my junior year at high school our parents announced that my friend and I needed to move up to the Northeast and my friend and I were all anxious about that. The Northeast is beautiful however the weather is absolutely not conducive to spending time outside year round unless you like colder weather. Most afternoons are rainy and damn and my friend and I had to make some drastic lifestyle changes when making the move. The greatest change for me was learning to deal with being cold all the time. In the Northeast the summers are genuinely short and it seems that cold damp weather is normal for 3/4 of the year. I had to learn to like indoor activities where the heat was on and I could stay sizzling and dry. There was one athletic activity however that I learned to cherish and that was snowshoeing. I could take you to another beauty of the outdoors and cherish the peace and quiet that came along with it. I would not spend much time out there because I still didn’t like being cold, however at least it gave me a bit of outdoor activity during long cold months. The other benefit to residing in the Northeast is that my parents are genuinely glad and in the long run I feel that is all that matters. They moved us here to be closer to our Grandparents who at the time entirely needed more assistance and it allowed us to become better acquainted with them as well.
