Coming from the aforementioned Boston, where the weather is as interesting as it sounds like it must be in Oregon (if not more so- 60 in early December? Really?), I've got to ask... don't you get bored in SoCal? If you go a year with no snow, hail storms, torrential rain, and 85-degree heat in the same week, don't you eventually get tired of it and wish for something more exciting?
Or is this just what we tell ourselves in between the heat waves and the blizzards, "We'd miss it if we left," to keep ourselves from moving to Florida?