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I see that this has turned into a nexus for the winter-haters. I'd just like to say that I'm just about the biggest winter fan you'll ever meet, and I'm really incapable of attaining a deep emotional understanding of why anyone could hate cold, snow, and winter. However, I do acknowledge it's a matter of taste, and considering all the threads us coldies have, it's about time you warm weather fans got a winter thread of your own.
You should see the gloom in the Syracuse area! Wow, I moved here from the Southwest (Sunny Phoenix). I actually hated the amount of sun we got there. Day in and day out, endless sun and it does get to you after years of it, physically and mentally lots of heat/sun is hard to endure, but also the lack of change/variety. Summers ( 4 1/2 months) you close your shades/blinds and pray for October.
Here, the cloud cover starts September 1st -late January. You see the Sun maybe 5-6 hours/week,maximum. Then, in later January, it starts getting sunnier. We're getting at least 4-5 days of partly sunny days now. I actually do better in clouds/cooler weather than unending heat for monthson end. Hoping temp. stay, weather one factor amongst many.
I see that this has turned into a nexus for the winter-haters. I'd just like to say that I'm just about the biggest winter fan you'll ever meet, and I'm really incapable of attaining a deep emotional understanding of why anyone could hate cold, snow, and winter. However, I do acknowledge it's a matter of taste, and considering all the threads us coldies have, it's about time you warm weather fans got a winter thread of your own.
LOL yeah it helps to be able to commiserate. I get so sick of hearing people tell me I just need to learn to love winter activities and blah blah. I've tried to politely explain that I've lived here my ENTIRE life, I've tried every winter activity there is. I simply hate anything to do with cold so I don't enjoy those activities. For some reason people seem to be unwilling to accept the fact that people could have different tastes and continue to insist that Im just not doing the right thing, need to do this or that. Thats why I come here, to chat with folks who aren't going to tell me how wrong I am and how I need to just buck up and blah blah.
Found out last year that the winter blues must run in my family. Grandma is a snow bird and last year she was talking about how much she used to suffer in winter and how she will NEVER live through another north country winter. She said her whole life changed when she moved South for those months. She didn't even know about SAD or know she had a problem with the actual season until she spent a few winters in S. C.
I see that this has turned into a nexus for the winter-haters. I'd just like to say that I'm just about the biggest winter fan you'll ever meet, and I'm really incapable of attaining a deep emotional understanding of why anyone could hate cold, snow, and winter. However, I do acknowledge it's a matter of taste, and considering all the threads us coldies have, it's about time you warm weather fans got a winter thread of your own.
Don't fret - the sun is now coming toward the northern hemisphere again
The further we go into February, and especially March, the Arctic blasts just can't deliver the same punch. The sun is just too high in the sky and even when brutally cold, the sunny days heat up nicely.
Personally I can't wait to March 1st. I already got some of summer deck plants sprouting in little containers (from seed). Bring on the warm weather!!
That's why I wish I was either at a lower altitude or not surrounded by a mass of water. Sun's too week to help us smash through this cold blast effectively, and the crummy arctic frigid waters around here mean spring is a prolonged, slightly subdued version of winter going on for months anyway.
LOL yeah it helps to be able to commiserate. I get so sick of hearing people tell me I just need to learn to love winter activities and blah blah. I've tried to politely explain that I've lived here my ENTIRE life, I've tried every winter activity there is. I simply hate anything to do with cold so I don't enjoy those activities.
Well, if you hate winter and are depressed you actually should try to engage in winter activities and get outside more. Believe it or not it actually works for some people. However, if you've tried to enjoy winter and failed, then you're part of the group that actually is unsuited to winter (the others just have a lifestyle problem). People should accept those results.
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Found out last year that the winter blues must run in my family. Grandma is a snow bird [...]
Curious. In my experience, climate preference usually doesn't run in families (yours being an exception).
Climate preference is different from depression, which does run in families. And is on my Grandma's side. Seasonal Affective Disorder is not just "boy I hate the cold". Its fighting tears everyday, not getting dressed or leaving the house unless I absolutely have to, crying for no reason, avoiding my friends and family. Its full on depression and it lifts every summer and comes back every January.
Climate preference is different from depression, which does run in families. And is on my Grandma's side. Seasonal Affective Disorder is not just "boy I hate the cold". Its fighting tears everyday, not getting dressed or leaving the house unless I absolutely have to, crying for no reason, avoiding my friends and family. Its full on depression and it lifts every summer and comes back every January.
LMAO, yup huge fan. And totally puzzled as to why anyone would move to Canada. I live near Canada and love my Canadian neighbors. Did one grad degree with mostly Canadians, they were super nice. But good god they don't have a Florida to run to in winter. How do they survive?
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