Beauty comes with a price.

I'm not one for snow and cold. Did enough of that growing up.
Love living in endless summer here in Clearwater FL.
But I do like when it cools down from Hi90's th mid 70's in the winter.
Which we still haven't seen yet. It's still hot as hell out.
AC it key here.

Best time of year

Everybody has to live somewhere. South has got too much heat and humidity, and skeeters the size of B52s. I live here because at some point in history German immigrants were offered cheap land and my grandparents ended up here to farm that cheap land. Though I have lived elsewhere including Europe and Japan, I ended up 50 miles from where I was born.

Like my grandmother used to say "they ain't got a lick of sense".

Born here. Economic opportunity (better jobs, more unions than the South). Now retired with a state of Michigan pension that has insurance that is only good inside of Michigan (Blue Care Advantage), so stuck here. Oh, and wife will not move to Arizona.

It got all the way up to a high of 45F here today, and that will likely be the warmest day of the week. A couple of days ago I went walking while it was just above freezing, and raining. By the time I got done it had turned to snow.

Nothing a good winter jacket, scarf, ski hat and gloves won't fix.

In some ways I'd like to try wintering someplace like Quebec City (the most winter snow in populated North America, I'm given to understand). At least winter is decisive there. None of this mucking about, repeatedly freezing and thawing, and turning everything into a tooth-rattling washboard. Plus they have the equipment to remove snow expeditiously.

I don’t know but I live in south Texas. This is cold enough for me, but if it was in the 70s for the high’s and in the 50s for the low’s year round it would be perfect. That is pretty much California weather but the coat of living in Texas is a lot cheaper.

What North do you live in? Scotland, Yorkshire, somewhere in Denmark or Canada?

I loved living up north when it was all I knew. Now I miss the north a bit as the south is so conservative. I love the snow but don’t miss six months of it. Ugh!! I’ll find my happy place yet!

I was asked by a Spanish tourist visiting my wee part of Scotland during June a few years ago. "What time does it get dark?" I replied August!

Some people love it - four seasons and all that ...

And I'm glad they do , otherwise they'd ALL be down South - and there's too many here already !

In Ohio, we all just suffer from depression from November to March (sometimes April).... it is our way....