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I think the cultural shock is more about being in southern Maryland than anything else, pretty "unusual" people down this neck of the woods. Weather is not that much different really, although the humidity of the summer here is very hard to get used to, the winters are about the same, although where I live in Canberra it doesn't know all that often, but as it is only about 30 klms from the Australian Great Dividing Range which gets plenty of snow during the Winter, Canberra gets the bloody freezing winds and very cold weather.