re: Question for Those Up North

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The Midwest in the fall is awesome.

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Yep. Pittsburgh/Western PA. falls are spectacular

new england winters aren't that bad, they have good infrastructure most places. well except BFE Maine but there's always some acadian guy who will do snow and ice management, give them a tip and you've got a friend FOR LIFE.

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BINGO. They romanticize it. I can assure you 99% of us are not building snowmen, having snowball fights, skiing powder, and looking at beautiful pristine white landscapes all day every day.

It’s fricking cold, gray, depressing, and when it does snow it turns to gray slop and shite that freezes in an hour.

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Chitown_Badger

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You live in Chicago.

I live in WI.

People from “up north” consider anything above 50% high humidity. It’s funny being in northern Michigan or Wisconsin in July and it being maybe 83-85 the high for two or three days in a row with 60% humidity and the locals swear they are in a heat wave.

Of course it does get cold there especially when the wind is blowing, but I’ll still take 25 up there with no wind than 45 down here. Humidity works both ways.

I lived outside of Chicago as a kid. Had memories of sledding down hills in the winters. There were no snow days lol.

I lived in El Paso tx for a couple of years. The temperature would get over 120 degrees. Would take that all day long over the shite we get here. Humidity makes a huge difference whether it's heat or cold.

I have a aunt that lives in Alaska. She thought it would be fun to come here in July to go to the casinos. She just about died and said she was never coming back.

I have lived on the west coast, east coast, in the middle of America. But was raised here and always found my way back. A lot of people complain about life in Louisiana and want to move. But I love my little slice of country life. Heat sucks but that just means we are getting close to football season.

Watching a sports talk show on TV emanating from New York recently, they were lamenting the quick passage of summer. “We’re in July already!” Implied by their discussion was the impending approach of winter. That opinion aside I’ve grown weary of the heat and humidity. Then the storms come.

My bro lives in MT, almost Canada. The only thing they really worry about during the winter is paying the snow plow man. I’ve spent weeks with them up there and never had any hassles I’ve known of. They have season passes to a nearby ski resort so I’m sure they look forward to winters. I definitely look forward to going up there every year to go skiing.

I don't mind winter but it is too long and summer too short up here.

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Can always throw more clothes on. It's only bad if it's like -20 or colder but that isn't all that common. Maybe a few nights per year.

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-15 air temperature is the coldest I've ever been in. Wind chill was -41. I worked outside that day. I don't miss those subzero days at all but that happened maybe 5 days a year at most unless there was a polar vortex.

There is also some really, really fun stuff to do on the Great Lakes in the summer.