I recently moved back to my home state.
I moved to the South to go to college for 4 years, but I ended up staying another 4 years after that because of the job I found. But once I got remote work and wasn’t tied down to that area, it seemed nicer to me thinking about moving back home. I had that experience living out of my home state away from my family, and I was ready to go back and see them all. On top of that, the rent is a lot more affordable near my parents’ hometown. I really hated paying high rent rates in the city I was living in during college. It was hard to afford living in an apartment when rent prices were higher than many other places in the country. So that made it a lot easier to move back home. Unfortunately the weather is sort of extreme in the winter season in this part of the country. I have a decent furnace in my home, but that’s not good enough if the power goes out. A lot of us use wood stoves and fireplaces to burn wood and the time of a power outage. A random blizzard can throw your power out in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping. Then you’d wake up shivering, or never wake up at all. Some people die of hyperthermia in their sleep because they don’t have adequate heat when they need it the most. You don’t necessarily need two heating systems if you live up north, but it’s certainly smart.