I love living in FL; I left a location that snowed 71% of the year, but my associate and I would get uneven temperatures below freezing, serious windchill, ice, and hail. I then decided enough is enough, but there are locations that just don’t get snow. I moved down south and eventually settled in St, however petersburg, FL. I actually care about the fact that the majority of the year isn’t winter. I used to own three furnaces! Now I get by with a heat pump, and a heat pump never could have been used up north. With this unit it is energy smart, red, and cheap to use… You can only operate it when the uneven temperatures are 40 degrees and above. The reason is the system uses existing heat energy in the air to sizzling a home… So colder locations are out of luck; Having a heat pump saves me so much money! Very rarely does the temperature get freezing enough that my emergency heat kicks on. The winter time season is so short too that it doesn’t bother me. What I do is mainly use the cooling function of the heat pump. It keeps me comfortable most of the year and costs hardly anything to run. It isn’t set up to do ductwork so I don’t have a whole household temperature control. I had to get several indoor air handlers with individual thermostats. This means I can have zone control if I so desire. I can’t imagine getting any other device. A heat pump is the right kind of unit for those living in tepid locations like southern FL.