When we lived up north a wood stove was a luxury to me. I don't miss Michigan where I lived a good portion of my life. Too gloomy and overcast all the time. I do love the mountains, there is just no denying that.
Here I don't stay in all summer; I usually walk the parks in the morning when it is cooler or in the evening when it's a bit cooler, so I'm not cooped up all day, or I do some yard work in the morning. I go outside a couple of times during the day and just walk around in the yard or play with the dog, sometimes I'll sit outside on the porch and read a book (I'm used to the heat). In the wintertime, I do about the same, I just put on long sleeves and pants and a warm jacket on our coldest days. So I'm able to go outside most days. Before we moved we had a pool, so I was outside most of the time, but in downsizing a pool was no longer an option. It's ok when they're first built, but after awhile you have to start replacing filters, pool pumps, lanai decking and screens, and then you have the cost of chlorine and other chemicals, etc. and the cost of the electricity to run the pump for at least 8 hours to avoid algae.
I ain't never had a pool, and wouldn't want one. I think all they do is make it easier to avoid the river, which is where i would prefer to be anyhow.
But I am fixin to get me a Jacuzzi. When the back porch goes on that is allowed for (on the other side from the outdoor kitchen). Mine will be a cedar tub, and wood fired. An absolutely necessary piece of kit for an elder. But for it to actually work, it has to be your own, where you can slide out of it, into a hot shower, and fall directly into bed. Every other scenario is faulty.
But I get out most days, even in the winter. I am no longer tied to chores, as my sons pick it up when I won't, so it would be easy enough to forego in inclement times. But I learned long ago to be out in it anyway... Because I get used to it quick enough, and that is the secret to survival anywhere.
Even so, other than the big freeze, usually in Jan, where we go 10's or 20's below pretty regularly for 2 weeks to a month, and outside of the odd year where we get buried in snow (One of those in the 7 years I have been here, where I literally had no place else to put it), for the most part, we stay in the 20's and 30's as a rule... It ain't all that.
