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As a night worker, I love that the days are great sleeping weather. If I'm in a good mood, great. If not, the weather sort of matches my mood. I once lived somewhere where there was relentless sun every day, regardless of changing temperatures, and it felt like there were no moods.
That said, I really like a sunny cold day. Think you should always need to wear a jacket.
No humidity or sticky everything (and I live in New England at present- but find the summers ever-more sticky, not hot but humid humid).
I love that, in retirement, if I don't want to go out because of snow or driving conditions, all I have to do is wait a day and then go. With work, I have to get on the highway and get to work no matter what. Retirement, I'll light a stove fire and watch the snow come down. Also hope to pick up cross-country skiing in Colorado. Not enough snow for many years in southern New England to bother.
I like having to dress up warm and have extra blankets to keep warm. Somehow I find that comforting. I like hot chocolate and all the winter foods. I like watching snow falling silently. I always think it should make a sound with all that activity, like the rain, but it doesn't. I like bundling up and walking in it for a little while.
I like that the biting bugs die out. I like that I can always get warm if I'm cold. But in the summers which I don't care for much I'm uncomfortable and hot. I like it when the humidity turns to dryness. I like watching figure skating on TV or sometimes even in person.
During the long time I lived in the PNW, winters never seemed right to me after living in Chicago for the first part of my life and experiencing the winters there. Rain in winter just always seemed odd to me.
I hate the darkness. I hate the dead trees, dead yards, mud. It's 4-5 months a year here in Tennessee. We get maybe one less month of crap weather than Michigan. I've been considering moving to Tampa for years and plan to be in central FL by the time I'm 35.
Hmm many who posted talk about an inch or two or three shutting everything down...we need a nor'easter like last March that dumped 35" in less than 18 hours for Us. That only ground us to a halt for a day, the second day any " essential personnel " was allowed and day three all was open, except a few missed roads in the small city center. They took a week to get cars off thise street and cleared out.
They don't even bring the plows out until there's at least 3" of snow on the road. And we drive carefully, but normal.
Heck I don't even put on boots until it's at least a foot deep.
At a foot. It starts to get a little dicey, but good tires and careful driving will get you through, no 4 wheel or all wheel needed. Though front wheel drive is better than rear wheel drive.
The ONLY real problem we have is the ice. When it gets to a certain low temp ice treatments are no longer effective.
And our winter's are mild compared to the upper plains states, i think.
Schools rarely close but a foot plus will do it, sometimes 8 inches if they have the snow days available.
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