> southern part of Croatia

That's where I live. Summers get much too hot to be called mild, but it's the winters that are annoying as hell. Everyone pretends that the cold doesn't exist, so insulation is terrible and so is heating unless you want to pay through the nose for electricity every month.

Seriously, winters were much better when I lived in the capital, which is continental and colder but has actual amenities to counter that.

I did have an opportunity to spend a month in Los Angeles on two occasions (in winter and fall) and the weather was fantastic.