<p>Yomama, I live near you and I have had a kid go to the East coast and another who was living in Russia in December. It was cold, but there was really no particular issue. In fact, my San Francisco-born son found that he was more acclimated to cool weather than his east coast peers - in October he was running around in a t-shirt while everyone else had put on sweaters and jackets. </p>
<p>The bigger problem for my son was rain – it rained a lot on the east coast, and unlike California, it wasn’t restricted to one time of year. So rain gear is important. </p>
<p>I have to say that a mere 2 years on the east coast did convince my son that he needed to come home to California, but it wasn’t the weather – it was the people. He just wasn’t comfortable with the different social/cultural atmosphere.</p>