No. Eastern Europe. A matter of fact the place where I live, having a Central European climate, is almost perfect for bee hives. My grandpa had really good amounts of honey "harvested" from his bees. There weren't all the years the same though, but overall his hobby/small business went very good. After his death though nobody in the family knew how to handle bees and we had to sell the bees. We still have the place where they were placed though...