Most condos have their own furnaces/water heaters/utilities. There's really not a big difference in what you'd need to do when leaving.
If you really don't like hassles, you really don't want to own a structure (of any kind) that is unoccupied for most of the year. Crap will go wrong and you won't find out about it for months and months - and by then the black mold has taken hold after a pipe leaked and it'll cost $50k to fix.
I mean, houses/condos/apartments have problems. They *always* have problems. Period. If nobody is around to notice those problems, they can get very bad in a hurry. Squatters can move in, animals can move in, various systems can malfunction and damage things, etc, etc. Those are all easy to deal with if you're there in person all the time ("oh, the faucet is starting to drip, I'll go get a new seal") They are impossible to deal with if you're gone for 9 months a year.
If you are really outdoorsy, and you just need a place to sleep while you have fun in the sun, you really should just be renting a super tiny place (or renting a bedroom on AirBnB). Even a hotel at weekly rates is probably a better plan than buying something. And it leaves you lots of flexibility to try different places/do different things.
-W