I grew up in NZ, moved to Colorado for ten years and whined about the snow, then came home and realised how good I'd had it in CO. I hadn't noticed the rain because I'd grown up with it. Only when I came back to it from a place with little and predictable rain, did I notice it.
I grew up barefoot. Went to university in Wellington and in my first year, had to go see the doctor. "I have weird things on my feet."
"They're chilblains! Wear shoes!"
Wellington definitely has a different climate to the north.
Places like Spain and France get the pleasant end of the stream that brings slightly warmer weather than they otherwise would have given the latitude.
Meanwhile, the eastern part of the US gets the chaotic middle portion that generates hurricanes.
My favorite weather is the Mediterranean weather on California's coast, particularly the Central Coast. The favorable weather is one of the reasons why the area is so expensive. Barring that, I can cope with the warm Mediterranean climate of the Central Valley. Yes it gets hot in the summer, but it's a dry heat, and the winters are also dry, with snow being a once-per-generation occurrence, and the spring and fall are just as nice as on the coast. Barring that, I like the weather in the Pacific Northwest; yes it does rain a lot, but the summers are amazing. I also heard good things about the weather in parts of New Mexico, where it's a high elevation desert and thus it doesn't get too hot in the summer, and where it sometimes snows in the winter but doesn't get extremely cold like it does in places farther north.
Like, no, thank you, as someone who goes outside every week-end, I'm not moving somewhere where it's 100F or 20F for like 3-6 months of the year. It's insane coming from Western Europe how shitty of the US is climate-wise.