New England is probably one of the extreme cases in the US where you're trying to balance:
- Being in the same time zone as locations, like NYC, that you communicate with and travel back and forth to a lot.
- Not "wasting" (from the perspective of most) summer sunlight at insanely early hours.
- Doing the best balancing act possible with less than ten hours of sunlight in the winter for necessary morning and late afternoon activities.
Go further north and you're pretty much screwed in the winter anyway--it doesn't really make sense for Newfoundland to try to eek out some winter morning sunlight--but in the Boston area you sort of can.
- Being in the same time zone as locations, like NYC, that you communicate with and travel back and forth to a lot.
- Not "wasting" (from the perspective of most) summer sunlight at insanely early hours.
- Doing the best balancing act possible with less than ten hours of sunlight in the winter for necessary morning and late afternoon activities.
Go further north and you're pretty much screwed in the winter anyway--it doesn't really make sense for Newfoundland to try to eek out some winter morning sunlight--but in the Boston area you sort of can.