[steveax]

Bob Cratchit fingerless gloves FTW :-)

Seriously though, I live without AC at home (Portland, OR, so not a real hardship) and often wear a cap and vest during the winter. I kinda like having more connection to the outside temperature.

[tinix]

As someone who has lived and spent a lot of time in both very humid and hot areas, like South America and the Southeastern US, and as someone who has also lived in the PNW... I have to say, you simply need to accept that you simply don't know what humidity is in the PNW... heat too, and just weather in general (haha, people in seattle had a meltdown when it hailed).

Sure, it's more humid, than, say, San Diego, but it's not humid in the PNW, by any rational means.

There's a reason AC is uncommon up there, because it's really not necessary.

As for heating, that's more of a concern up there, and that's why oil heating is WAY more common there, than, say, Alabama. The opposite is true for cooling, too...

But, as someone else who lived in the PNW, I have to agree with you at least on one front, some good fingerless gloves are basically necessary in the winter.