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So, how's the weather? Right now, 5/19/12 at early afternoon, Houston, which should be in its 4-month summer (JJAS) is showing:
86 degrees/43% humid/felt temperature: 86 degrees
I looked at their average, and during the summer season (JJAS), the average lows are 75/77/77/71, meaning it might be sticky at night, but doable. Then, check out how temperate the winter months are:
What about crime and murders? Chicago has the second highest murder rate of any US big city. It's almost triple that of NYC and double LA's.
Crime is bad but do you honestly think if I moved to Chicago it would be to the ghetto areas?
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Originally Posted by robertpolyglot
Chicago? Seriously?
I agree. I feel like the only reason people even say Chicago is because the live in places like Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, or Philly where they have to deal with bad winters and humid summers.
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Originally Posted by Chicago60614
I'm shocked how many people are overexaggerating the summers. I absolutely HATE HATE HATE heat and humidity. It certainly can get hot and humid in Chicago during heat waves, but July and August average the low 80's in Chicago. Some days are bad, but overall Chicago summers are pretty great. Not to mention the mentality and energy in the city skyrockets from mid May through mid October.
That's been exactly my perception as well...there are those too who argue that Minneapolis is terrible in the summer...pretty ridiculous IMO. I would never live in Houston. Where i live now the summers are intolerable enough in terms of heat and humidity, and the winters are moderately cold and snowy, but not consistently cold and snowy enough to satisfy me. Houston has no winter, and its summers are IMO as bad as anywhere in the country. I could never live in a summer where the AVERAGE high temperature is in the upper 90s, and heat indices are over 115 degrees consistently.
I guess being on the ocean gives Houston somewhat of a relief from the heat, but Chicago has an answer for that...Lake Michigan.
I'd just prefer Chicago because like where I live now, it gets all four seasons, and its winters are more of what I'd like.
In this context "big city" is usually defined as more than one million residents and Chicago is (a distant) second to Philadelphia.
Do you have a citation or reference for that? I've never heard of that kind of definition.
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