Anyone put in a patio in New England?

[Warpy]

1. Paving stones set into a well prepared sand bed

with more sand pushed into the cracks afterward are quite stable. Mortar isn't used in New England because it will eventually fail. Sand allows the pavers to shift just enough to avoid cracking, heaving, and other things that poured concrete is well known to do.

I didn't do a patio, I did a deck that was well off the ground. However, friends with more money than I had did the pavers and sand and it worked out very well for them. The only pain in the neck was occasionally pulling weeds out of the sand and then resanding the whole business, but that was minor, IMO.