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View Poll Results: Do you love cold weather?
I LOVE it 38 25.50%
I like it 30 20.13%
meh 20 13.42%
I dont like it 11 7.38%
I HATE it 47 31.54%
other 2 1.34%
View 1 0.67%
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Old 07-19-2009, 02:11 PM
 
Location: Dixie's Sunny Shore
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I despise it, and in West MI you get very accustomed to it. I think I hate the snow/ice more than the lower temps, but either way we've been trying to move south for months with no luck.
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Old 07-20-2009, 01:46 PM
 
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Well I don't love the -30 C days, when it's so cold it stings. But anything warmer than that is ok with me, and I do like the cooler weather. The snow is fun, and I absolutely love being outside when it's snowing. It's just so beautiful.
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Old 07-20-2009, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Just trying to figure out how people can live up north...

I love the cold weather, and I miss it. I miss driving in the snow, too, though I admit I don't miss scraping ice off my car at all. Brushing snow is fun, tho.

At least it gets down into the teens here in the Atlanta metro a few times during the winter. Not the same as nice crisp -15F air, but close enough to convince me that it actually is wintertime...
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:11 PM
 
Location: MN
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A nice snowfall is always awesome. there is NOTHING comparable to waking up to a white landscape from the night before. Cold air is nice to breath, and it cleans the air... Extend days of cold, i mean really cold SUCKS. This is typically January and February. Believe it or not, 30s is actually a nice temp in the winter.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:41 PM
 
Location: uptown mpls
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YES
i'm an ice angler, and i spend 6 months out of the year waiting for the cold. i just don't understand how people can be such babies about it. grow a pair!

take a little drive around minneapolis during a gentle snowfall...its amazing, like a totally different city. i love how we have 2 versions of minneapolis: summer and winter. both equally beautiful.
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Old 07-22-2009, 12:24 AM
 
Location: MN
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Just trying to figure out how people can live up north...

The same way that you live in the south.
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Old 09-24-2009, 07:11 PM
 
Location: Ontario,Canada
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Iam From Northern Toronto and The Cold Doesnt bother me we are used to it, I Like the crisp cold air.
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Old 09-25-2009, 01:41 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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I don't hate the cold but it lasts too long. I wish there was a place that had real winters than only lasted 3 months. Winter can be half the year in MN. I've seen snow there in September to mid May. Too long. Now I've never liked the shoveling. Especially that wall of guck the plow leaves at the end of your driveway.
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Old 09-25-2009, 11:26 AM
 
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I think most people don't like cold. They just make up for it by something else. Most people I meet in MN just tell me that it does not bother them as much as one from elsewhere would suggest, but they wouldn't say they love it. There are several on this forum though saying that they actually love the cold. I don't know whether they are trying to persuade others or to persuade themselves though. I can perfectly understand that people love winter activities, but the cold itself is a difficult sell. More cold weather does not mean more winter activities.
Having lived for many years in both Miami and MN, I saw the same phenomenon down in FL (and you can see it yourself on the FL forum). The weather in S FL is ungodly from the end of March to the beginning of November (heat & humidity to the max, you must run your ac 24/7, you sweat just walking out to your mailbox), but many Floridians say the weather there is perfect.

I think MOST people don't like either extreme. Except for Californians, the rest of us pick our poison and live with it. Personally, I can handle a few days of sub zero weather every winter in MN, than 9 solid months of humidity in FL. I wouldn't trade a MN Spring/summer for a FL winter any day. Your results may differ.
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Old 09-25-2009, 01:58 PM
 
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This past winter in Minnesota was particularly depressing. We descended into the deep freeze in mid-November and really did not begin to normalize until mid-February. Then there was that lovely stretch of more than a month below freezing (12/30 - 1/31) and the kick of subzero temps in January (1/12 - 1/16). Bleh. I agree with people who really like autumn. The problem for me is that it doesn't last. It gets progressively worse. But this whole month of September has been absolutely great.

As to why people live in this climate (or any) -- I think it has to do more with inertia than anything else.
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