> I was concerned about the heat in Pasadena and the piles of snow in Boston As a native Californian living in Pasadena, I also hate the heat -- but, unlike Bo

> I was concerned about the heat in Pasadena and the piles of snow in Boston As a native Californian living in Pasadena, I also hate the heat -- but, unlike Boston (in my experience), air conditioning is standard, and makes the outside situation matter far less. (It's also not usually that bad, and it's almost always a dry heat.) The one time I visited Boston (for an undergraduate research program), it was frosty the first few days, and then hellishly humid every day thereafter. The dorm I was staying in didn't really have temperature control, and I got the sense that AC wasn't as common. Your mileage may vary!