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Americans need to have a mentality like Canadians. Canadians embrace winter, because, well why wouldn't you? Being whiny won't make it any warmer lol.
I 100 percent agree lol. It's understandable because the US is obviously a much warmer country than Canada, but it can border on being as illogical as the drivel of this weather forum's clown climatologists.
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I'll take Boston 2nd, similar sunshine to New York but still fairly mild and with more snow (snow is a positive for me).
Minneapolis 3rd place I think. I lived in Thunder Bay for a few years which is considerably colder, and I survived. I did find Thunder Bay winters rather... long, with about 5 months of sub-freezing daily means. Minneapolis winters are only slightly longer and colder than what I'm used to so it's not much of a big deal.
Sub-freezing daily means
Thunder Bay: Nov 6-Apr 4 = 150 days
Minneapolis: Nov 19-Mar 14 = 116 days
Toronto: Dec 1-Mar 18 = 108 days (more like 95-100 days for last 20 years)
Denver looks good on paper but imo suffers from crazy expreme weather
with those chinnoks ....like a warmer version of Calgary.
Aside from the crazy extremes most days in Denver are quite pleasant with sunshine.
Sunshine is plentiful with very few grey wet days in winter. Should also add that the days are not as short. For people who legitimately suffer from seasonal affective disorder Denver is far and above the best place to live out of all the cities in this thread.
I 100 percent agree lol. It's understandable because the US is obviously a much warmer country than Canada, but it can border on being as illogical as the drivel of this weather forum's clown climatologists.
Thankfully you have a good winter mentality.
Actually when I visited Canada (Calgary and region) everyone who I heard express an opinion on winter there was that it was too long and too cold!
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Seattle is, like someone mentioned the only place where you have palm trees out of all on that list and sometimes can go the whole year without snow.
The 2nd place prize would go to either Denver (because you can get the occasional fluke 60 degree days) or NYC.
Other than that, all the rest on the list are blah or brutal for Winter.
Aside from the crazy extremes most days in Denver are quite pleasant with sunshine.
Sunshine is plentiful with very few grey wet days in winter. Should also add that the days are not as short. For people who legitimately suffer from seasonal affective disorder Denver is far and above the best place to live out of all the cities in this thread.
Denver has the sunshine advantage, though I don’t think it has a huge daylight advantage. For example, Denver sunsets are at 4:43 right now. Sunsets will remain before 5 until mid-January. Seattle sunsets are at 4:32 right now. Sunsets will remain before 5 until late January. Denver gets more daylight in the morning but I think most people prefer daylight in the afternoon.
Seattle is, like someone mentioned the only place where you have palm trees out of all on that list and sometimes can go the whole year without snow.
The 2nd place prize would go to either Denver (because you can get the occasional fluke 60 degree days) or NYC.
Other than that, all the rest on the list are blah or brutal for Winter.
Hardy palms can survive in NYC and Denver. Just as the same as Seattle. Kinda crazy but people do plant them.
I should add that touching 60 degrees during winter in Denver happens quite often more than people realize.
Actually when I visited Canada (Calgary and region) everyone who I heard express an opinion on winter there was that it was too long and too cold!
That's because Calgary's winter like weather is ridiculously unbalanced relative to seasons and averages. Canadians from more balanced areas like Toronto don't mind.
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