Have you ever had to adapt to a totally different climate when moving to a new locale? Arizona makes 50 degrees seem like below zero.

  I was born and raised in the American Midwest. At age 18, I joined the Marine Corps, reported to San Diego, California for boot camp, was stationed at Camp Pendleton, California and Tustin, California after that, and a few months later, transferred to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii for the next five years. While stationed in Hawaii, I alternated between eight months at Kaneohe Bay and six months aboard ship on three separate Western Pacific Deployments, sailing to overseas ports such as Australia, Diego Garcia, Hong Kong, Iwo Jima, mainland Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, etc.  That just sums up the first six years of a long military career. 

  After so many years in sunny Southern California, Hawaii, and those foreign countries, I became so spoiled when it comes to weather that by choice I've vowed to never live in a snowy locale again, which is why I've lived in Southern California ever since (over 25 years). Like you, when it gets California cold here, I get cold just like native Californians do. 
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