Not by choice. I came down here at about 13, (although I had lived down here briefly a couple of years before) because my Grandma and Grandpa had moved down here, to take care of my great Grandma. She died, then we stayed down because of my grandparents, Grandma died first, then, a few years later, Grandpa died. My brother, his wife, and his kids live in what was originally my great grandma’s house. That said,my mother wants to go back to the QC area, I do not. She seems very angry at this fact. Keep in mind, I don’t handle cold weather very well. I remember living in Kewanee, Illinois as a child, and I would have headaches for weeks at a time during the winter. I missed quite a bit of school. There are things I like about the midwest, but the weather in the winter is not one of those things. Also, the hottest weather I’ve ever been in is in Illinois, not here in the south. Not sure why people don’t seem to know that there are four seasons in most parts of the midwest. I’m fine with our average of one snowfall a year. The ice storms are horrible though.