I was down there (Houston) for spring break last year (first week of March), and while it was a nice change from Rochester's winter, I wouldn't want to live there. You can't see any stars! (I tried, the night I went to the rodeo. It didn't work.) And the humidity even around this time of year is enough to make me feel like I'm swimming through the air.

It's actually getting nice up here, surprisingly... There isn't any snow left on the ground(!) and it's actually over freezing(!!). Of course, the mud could swallow elephants, but part of that is because RIT's built on a swamp.