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Yup, read the OP. He is complaining about his suffering in the winter and a bunch of people show up to tell him "it's not bad, I made a snow angel yesterday and had a hot cup of chocolate".
Kind of insensitive if you ask me.
Then you have people like me who lived in cold climates, and know what is common sense, that 99% of people in those climates either hate winter or tolerate it, and when we say this, you take it personally. Why?
The only difference between a Buffalo winter and a Grand Rapids winter is the lack of complaining.
Bitching about the weather ad nauseum must be an interior Northeast thing (Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Rochester, etc.) The municipal water supplies in upstate New York and western Pennsylvania ought to be fortified with Prozac if for no other reason than to shut people the **** up this time of the year.
A New Jerseyan, talking about a "true winter", this is epic. You would think you live in Minnesota how you are talking!
Please get over yourself. We routinely get snow. We routinely get cold. We routinely get below freezing temps (hence the snow).
If my neighbors can build a backyard skating rink every year and it lasts through the winter, I think we get a true winter. If some guy in my town can build numerous snow sculptures every year for 18 years and makes the paper for it, I think we get a true winter.
I never claimed it was worse than other winters, actually I've said it's not. But it's a real winter.
Please get over yourself. We routinely get snow. We routinely get cold. We routinely get below freezing temps (hence the snow).
If my neighbors can build a backyard skating rink every year and it lasts through the winter, I think we get a true winter. If some guy in my town can build numerous snow sculptures every year for 18 years and makes the paper for it, I think we get a true winter.
I never claimed it was worse than other winters, actually I've said it's not. But it's a real winter.
It's just personal preference. I agree long hot humid summers aren't my favorite, but I would choose them over long cold snowy winters. I really hope one day I can escape the cold for good. It's miserable for me.
The thing that I find frustrating about threads like these is that winter tolerance is, to some extent, all about your mindset. How do I know? Because I used to hate winter. I would spend four months thinking about when it would end, thinking about warmer weather, dreaming of living someplace warm, trying to figure out a way to go south for a week.
But I like winter now. Did something magically change so that my body can handle low temps better? No. I just changed the way I look at things, changed the way I dress, and changed my behavior. Got some new hobbies. Learned to appreciate the natural beauty of winter. At this point, I can't imagine living somewhere without snow on the ground for most of the winter.
So when I hear someone say, "I hate winter, that's just the way I am," there is always a part of me that wants to argue with them, because I know from personal experience that liking/hating winter is not set in stone.
The thing that I find frustrating about threads like these is that winter tolerance is, to some extent, all about your mindset. How do I know? Because I used to hate winter. I would spend four months thinking about when it would end, thinking about warmer weather, dreaming of living someplace warm, trying to figure out a way to go south for a week.
But I like winter now. Did something magically change so that my body can handle low temps better? No. I just changed the way I look at things, changed the way I dress, and changed my behavior. Got some new hobbies. Learned to appreciate the natural beauty of winter. At this point, I can't imagine living somewhere without snow on the ground for most of the winter.
So when I hear someone say, "I hate winter, that's just the way I am," there is always a part of me that wants to argue with them, because I know from personal experience that liking/hating winter is not set in stone.
Maybe, but I think it would be natural to not like having your life threatened just to walk outside the door. A natural human habitat is probably around 80F. You see that the animals in these polar climates are covered in fur but humans are not.
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