I already did have a 25x100 bino with straight eyepieces and it was a terrible thing to bend my neck to observe comets high in the sky. Additional, I use digital setting circles with my Dobsonian where I program the observing objects for the nights session into the guiding mini-computer. My observing site is in my hometown Frauenstein, which has about 1300 inhabitants. At best I have a naked eye limit at the zenith of about 7 mag but usually about 5.5-6.5. The climate is affected by the location on top of the Erzgebirge mountains at 650 metres.
Problems are often strong winds, much snow in winter and fog.
Interestingly, I almost discovered a comet accidentally. Presently I do occasional comet hunting, but when there is a clear sky, the priority is always at the comet observing than at the comet hunting. There you will also find a link to the homepage of the German Comet Observers which I maintain together with Andreas Kammerer.