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I absolutely hate winter too. Cold, dark mornings, taking the dog for a walk and my fingers ache from the cold. Shoveling snow, dead landscape. I hate it all. But then I also hate humidity and bugs, so I couldn't live anywhere east of Colorado. At least our summers are beautiful and near perfect for my taste. Warm to hot afternoons, cool nights in the 60s, and no sticky humidity.
Overall, Denver's winters aren't that bad and we do get warm days here and there all winter. It's been quite pleasant the past month, and 70 degrees today. Just very dry. I'm hand-watering the grass right now and other things to start seeing some green.
I never really minded winter all that much until the last two years. Why, you ask?
Because of the wind. The wind here this winter has been unbearable. I don't mean a little breeze, I mean tie-down-the-patio-furniture-because-the-winds-are-blowing wind. Most of this season it's been winds of more than 10mph, with a lot of days winds 30mph and gusting to 45 mph. When it's already 32 degrees, heavy winds make it feel like sub-zero. It goes right through me, regardless of how many layers I have on!
I hate winter with all my heart and soul. We're moving to NC next year and I can not wait.
I know exactly what you mean about the wind. It's always been awful up here. Sorry to ask cause usually I remember the areas that most of the people live in, BUT where do you live now?
i HATE summer, the only thing i like is that there's no school, thats about it, it SUCKS annoying bugs pesky wasps all over the place, endless days of heat/humidity between Late May-Late September, -30 felt actually pretty good to me it felt refreshing sorta, skies are so clear when it's that temperature at night, during the day it's cloudy, when it's hot here we get "pop-up" thunderstorms EVERY SINGLE DAY, and when it's not raining, the sky is an ugly hazy-looking color.
Jammie---------at this time it appears to be NE Alabama (spent a week there in November)
I sold my dairy herd August 1 and signed the sale of the farm papers Sept 1. The delay is a contingency clause that my son must sell his house to buy my dairy farm.
With the housing market in the dumps, I may be still here for quite awhile. He rents the farm (except for our house) and has his milk cows here. His house is 7 miles away.
Jammie---------at this time it appears to be NE Alabama (spent a week there in November)
I sold my dairy herd August 1 and signed the sale of the farm papers Sept 1. The delay is a contingency clause that my son must sell his house to buy my dairy farm.
With the housing market in the dumps, I may be still here for quite awhile. He rents the farm (except for our house) and has his milk cows here. His house is 7 miles away.
it can get pretty darn cold in NE Alabama, not anything like Minnesota, but can get to the low teens/upper single digits pretty much every winter.
I personally LOVE northern winters, cold,cloudy days are for me!!
How many days of northern winter have you been able to experience?
I know I like the regular southern summer weather because I've spent a total close to 20 weeks in it, spread over 11 years. It resembles heat waves in Toronto as well as Carribbean winter weather, both of which I love.
*Note I hesitate to say I like it entirely, as I don't know how I'd feel in some parts of the South in a hotter summer; say 50 days straight of 97+ F. It could irritate me, it might not, but I'll never know unless I actually lived in it.
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If I could afford it I'd keep my AC on 70 
Or maybe even 68
