An old timer up there told me the same thing, that those from warm weather states generally, don’t last through too many winter. Me personally, I hate the freaking cold.
Californians buy here and after being trapped in their homes/driveways by snow, put their houses up for sale the following year. Snow in our driveway was 7” deep from one night’s snow this past week.
Same here. Left NH in 1998 and never looked back. I loved NH, but only in June, July and August.
The routine typically goes like this: husband and pals hunt in Idaho for years and when retirement time rolls around they bring their wives to Idaho in June and the place is beautiful...green, flowers, lakes, Julie Andrews singing, etc.
They sell their place in southern California and buy 5-acres and a nice house and have money left over for snow machines, boats, a horse or two, a new pickup truck and a goat.
Then winter shows up. The nearest Walmart from my place is a 3-hour drive if the pass is not closed, and the nearest airport with commercial flights is also 3-hours. No malls, no friends; and meanwhile, the husband is out on his snow machine with his pals, ice fishing, hunting and having a swell time.
Nest spring, the FOR SALE sign is in the yard and plans are being made to move to a retirement commune in Arizona.
And those of who have lived here for 30-years say...good riddance!