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Old 12-05-2008, 04:49 PM
 
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I lived in Chicago and have a lot of family in Minnesota. There is nothing less fun than using an ice scraper to clear your windshield. Also, it gets a little depressing knowing that once the cold hits, it's never going to get warm again until April. Heck, I hate the weather right now and it got down to a whopping 40 degrees last night! I don't know how anybody lives in Minnesota or Chicago. Days upon days of cold, cloudy, dreary, sun setting at 4:30 days are very depressing to me. If I lived in Minnesota, I'd probably be begging some 7 foot tall guy named Ollie Lundell to knock me upside the head and put me out of my misery. I'll take the average 62 degree partly sunny January Houston day and the punishment we take in the summer any day over winters up north. To me that's more than a fair trade.
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Old 12-05-2008, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Tomball, TX
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A lot of good posts out lining the misery of winter.

This is MY LAST winter in Michigan. God is it MISERABLE! Never ending gray..from the ground to the sky.

We close in 5 days on our House in Houston....AMEN!!!
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Old 12-06-2008, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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A lot of good posts out lining the misery of winter.

This is MY LAST winter in Michigan. God is it MISERABLE! Never ending gray..from the ground to the sky.

We close in 5 days on our House in Houston....AMEN!!!
Welcome to Houston...we LOVE it here! (former Ohioans)
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Old 12-06-2008, 05:30 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Only because it requires you to own much more clothing = $$$ Also a pain going from cold outside to hot inside (such as a mall) with what to do with your massive, down-lined subarctic winter coat you have to wear to survive from the car to the door.


For a day or two, perhaps. Then it falls off the dead-looking leafless trees, gets salted up, picks up all sorts of road dirt, melts, freezes, melts, freezes etc. etc. until it looks dingy and gray and completely depressing.


For kids, perhaps. Many places have outlawed throwing snowballs. And you can't sled once they salt up the roads anyway, unless you have a toboggan and it's a pain in the *** to haul yourself and sled back up the hill. (Personally I never liked hot chocolate but that's a fair point I guess)


I actually enjoy my Houston fireplace a lot now. Didn't even have one up north. They are really not very good for heating, you need an unattractive stove for that.


That's true. Then again it's been awhile since Houston had real football played here, anyway.


Inflatable snowmen and icicle lights don't fit there, either.

Cons:

And electrified. Dozens of static electric shocks every day.


Couldn't afford wool. I assume you're right.


Sure you do. They just deduct it from your vacation when you're paralyzed and government officials tell you NOT TO GO OUT but they expect you there anyway because one jerk with a 4x4 made it in, so why can't you?


?? The shower is the only warm part of your day. It's getting TO the shower that totally sucks.



Grey and Dark. Go to work in freezing cold darkness and come home in freezing cold darkness. Car takes 10 minutes before you can even feel heat coming out. (Honestly I think that is the worst part of all) Holding the steering wheel is like holding an ice cube.

Dirty, dead scenery for months on end. I'll never go back there! I don't even want to VISIT outside the months of May-October. I will miss skiing, though.
Don't hold back, now, tell us how you really feel!
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Old 12-06-2008, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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I will take 55 degree weather over 98 degree weather ANYTIME, except if I am near a beach. I love dressing warm.
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Old 12-06-2008, 05:49 PM
 
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Cold and snow is neat around the holidays because it fits with the mood of the season. After that it just becomes an annoyance that you have to suffer through. I lived in Virginia for 6 years, and there was nothing more miserable than days that reached highs of 28 and lows of 12.

Its a trade off between hot and cold, but you sure see a lot of New Englanders headed towards Florida for retirement and not a lot of Floridians headed the opposite way.
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Old 12-06-2008, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Mo City, TX
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Where I grew up (west texas) snow/cold was only like 3-4 days of the year and really enjoyed it, but I guess that's because it only lasted for a couple of days and then it was warm again.
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Old 12-07-2008, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Center Twp, PA
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I am from North Texas, where there is some cold weather and the occasional snowfall during the winter. I also got to live in Michigan, but only for a year. I loved everything about Michigan, especially the winter! Beautiful foliage and crisp autumn days, endless fun playing in the snow; and I was never once stuck inside because of a snowstorm. The roads are plowed quickly there.
I live outside of Houston and I hate it here. So, we are moving back up north, to PA this time. I just can't take this heat and humidity anymore.
I know some people enjoy it, I am just more of a cold weather person.
No offense anyone, please don't blast me for saying something negative against Houston.
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Old 12-07-2008, 06:11 PM
 
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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hate it hate it hate it......

endless day after day after day AFTER DAY of gray, gloomy overcast skies with dead tree branch sillouhettes....

snow is pretty for a day or so, then is dirty and messy ... and don't even get me started on the ICE..... even the hotshots with 4-wheel drive can't navigate on THAT......

that's when we even GET snow .... haven't even had much of that in recent years......

born and raised in houston and moved here in 1986.... CANNOT WAIT to come "back home," albeit, likely not back to houston, but further down the coast a bit....

oh ... and the summers here are EVERY BIT as hot and humid as houston....

roll on 2011........
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Old 12-10-2008, 10:57 AM
 
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You're either made for the cold or the warm/hot weather, usually not both. When I lived in Richmond, VA for three years the cold didn't really bother me much. Moving to MI was a different story entirely. I'm originally a Floridian and my body could never quite adjust for the seven years I lived there. Dreary, dreary, cold, freezing temps for almost eight months of the the year. I hated every minute of it. All the cons everyone has posted applied to living there.

We moved three months ago and we love it and my husband is a Michigander-he tells people he should have moved twenty years ago. As I get older I've come to realize warm is the way to go for me-I got that cold weather longing out of my system for good!!
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