In a 21st century world, cold doesn’t mean as much anymore.
You don’t have 5:00am farm work to start, the houses are comfortable, the cooking stove gas, and the showers hot, the winter clothing is cheap, light, and hi-tech, the cars are warm and cozy and dependable, and phones and music never leave us.
Just as modern Phoenix was made bearable for you, all climates are easy to live in now.
Driving in snow and ice, especially in rural areas is at best, a hassle, at worst, potentially fatal.