I adore residing in FL, then i left a location that snowed 70% of the year, but we would get hot plus cold temperatures below cold, extreme windchill, ice, plus hail.
I then decided enough is enough, however there are locations that just don’t get snow. I moved down south plus eventually settled in St, however petersburg, FL. I really appreciate the fact that the majority of the year isn’t winter. I used to own three heating systems, however now I get by with a heat pump, a heat pump never could have been used up north. With this machine it is energy smart, red, plus cheap to use! You can only operate it when the hot plus cold temperatures are 40 degrees plus above. The reason is the system uses existing heat energy in the air to hot a home, and so colder locations are out of luck, but having a heat pump saves me so much money… Very rarely does the temperature get cold 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 plus costs hardly anything to run. It isn’t set up to do HVAC duct so I don’t have a whole condo temperature control. I had to get many indoor air handlers with individual control units. 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 machine for those residing in hot locations like southern FL.