It's been known to get as hot as 100 degrees fahrenheit there hasn't it?Only on the weekend and at the beach. ;-)
You're right, it does get hot enough to grow really good Chardonnay. But the temperature, the remoteness and the local populace contribute to the sort of mental relaxation that helps you live longer.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
