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1. I take the two extra minutes and dress appropriately for the weather.
2. I don't let the weather dictate my life. There is plenty to do here in winter.
3. I grew a pair and realized that it isn't that bad; in fact, I enjoy it.
Why do I stay in a (relatively) cold climate? Because I absolutely DESPISE hot weather, most likely. You can wear layers in the cold and stay warm. When it's 100+ degrees there are laws in all 50 states (except maybe the city of San Francisco?) that prevent you from walking down the street naked.
Besides, fall colors and winter snow are gorgeous (when you're not shoveling it. Invest in a snow-blower). Your average American in skimpy, anatomy-revealing summer attire? Not so much.
I love the people in my cold weather town (Seattle)! I've been many places, but home is here in the Northwest. The people really make this place home for me.
I left the really cold state of MN because of weather and taxes. My parents still live in MN but are ready to move because of the 600-700 a month they pay in only property taxes.
My wife wants to move back to MN because her family is there. I hate the weather in the winter for MN and HATE the MN politics and taxes.
Cause I want to?? I don't really know what this post has to do with the temperature. Honestly I always laugh at my friends in Florida who always bombard everyone with "florida in january!" but then from June through September they're curiously..... silent....although none of our midwest friends are beating this dead horse every day for weeks on end that its miserable in Florida and nice elsewhere. I feel like people in warmer climates/the south tend to play up the weather way more than people in the north tend to care about it. It's warmer down south....it's warmer in winter. That's great, I'm happy about it......but that hardly means anyone up north is losing out on living or dwelling. I'm just as busy in winter as I am in summer, I love snow, I don't mind cold weather. You change what you wear, but you don't stop living. I love the change of seasons, I LOVE snow, I'm not a huge fan of being freezing cold - but that's just a fraction of your year, even in Chicago. Just cause it's December, January and February doesn't mean it's meaninglyfully COLD out the entire time.
So true, right on! You almost never see these surveys during summertime, but during winter they return with a vengence! It's like people need a justification for why they live where they do. It screams insecurity to me, personally, but maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. Maybe those in warmer climates are sincerely worried about their colder bretheren up North and are looking out for our best interests?
I left the really cold state of MN because of weather and taxes. My parents still live in MN but are ready to move because of the 600-700 a month they pay in only property taxes.
My wife wants to move back to MN because her family is there. I hate the weather in the winter for MN and HATE the MN politics and taxes.
You're answering a question nobody asked. The OP's question was "why do you stay", not "why did you leave" or "trash your former Northern locale".
I love the people in my cold weather town (Seattle)! I've been many places, but home is here in the Northwest. The people really make this place home for me.
I wouldn't even call Seattle Cold Weather. I think they were mainly referring to Northeast and Midwest. Seattle is pretty temperate and gets less snow annually then many places in the south...
For many people weather is not the determining factor in where they live. I live where I do because of the culture. I think much of the north (New England, the upper Midwest and the PNW) has a more communitarian view of the relationship between the society, the state and the individual. This builds communities with stronger social capital and institutions.
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I grew up partially in Southern California and in Michigan. I can say that my life experiences would be so much less interesting had I not experienced the winters here in Michigan. I grew up sledding, skating, building a snow man, having snow ball fights, shoveling the driveway and sidewalk, wearing a snow jacket, pushing a car stuck in snow, making my car go in donuts, watching the news at night hoping for school cancellation, playing hockey, ice fishing, and the list goes on and on and on. I am so grateful that I grew up with 4 distinct seasons, otherwise, my life's experiences would be so much less interesting. I can't imagine not having these experiences. Now with winters, I will say that they last maybe a month or a month and half longer than ideal. But am I going to move to avoid 12 weeks of cold weather? And when the summer comes, and I visit all the coastal towns, beaches, and sand dunes of Michigan, and the 4 months of winter cold were worth it.
I wouldn't even call Seattle Cold Weather. I think they were mainly referring to Northeast and Midwest. Seattle is pretty temperate and gets less snow annually then many places in the south...
Seattle is in a pretty unique climate zone. We get milder temps in both Winter and Summer than anywhere else at our latitude in the U.S. There's even a pretty big difference in the extremes between here and Spokane, on the other side of the state, where they get heavy snow in winter and regularly hit triple-digits in summer.
I definitely wouldn't call Seattle a "cold-winter" city, the way cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, or even Boston and NYC are.
It does get pretty consistently cold for long periods of time here, but it's usually a wet, misty cold that stays just above freezing. Definitely not the bitter, sub-zero temps that are common throughout the upper Midwest in winter. It snows here occasionally, but it's rare. However, you will need to wear warm clothes for many months here. It's NOTHING like winters in the South, where winter weather can bounce schizophrenically from 75 degrees to snow, then back to 75 degrees in a matter of a week.
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