I&#x27;ve lived in the Inter-mountain West.  I enjoyed the weather, but it is brutal, and right now they&#x27;re having the sixteen-year drought the article mentions.  That&#x27;s bad weather.<p>New England doesn&#x27;t have hurricanes, droughts, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, or massive forest fires.  But the cold is serious.  So many people move to the Sun Belt because of it.<p>All of the places I mentioned have substantial population growth because of their weather.  In the Carolinas there are lots of Northerners who move down to Florida, discover how much the Summers suck here, then move back up as far as there.  They call them Halfbacks.