As a non-vampire, I have to laugh at "quality of life." You can't use those tax savings, or any amount of money for that matter, to buy a clear day in January. Not to mention the wildly different personalities cultivated by each climate.
It's fine; we don't need money to buy a clear day in January, just for someone on the internet to assert we don't have any for nature to go "Oh no they didn't."
(full disclosure it is a little cloudy but the sun is definitely out, and it's gorgeous.)