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01-15-2009, 12:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: chicago | | | Why do you live in the cold?
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I have been living in chicago for 3 years. It is a great city and I have been dealing ok with the winters. The summers have been great.
Today was -20F. Horrible day. I don't have to shovel snow but still c'mon, it is getting as cold as the north pole. I am about to call it quits.
Maybe move to AZ or California.
Why do people like it here? Why do you live in a cold city? |
01-15-2009, 12:58 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | I live in Canada because I was born here. I continue to live in Toronto because I attend school here. Once my career is in full swing, however, you can bet I'm looking at moving. I want to spend a few years in Japan, Netherlands, and beyond that, who knows?
Your question reminds me: Every winter (to this day) I ask my parents: "Mom's Dutch! Why the crap didn't you two settle there instead of this climactic yo-yo?"
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01-15-2009, 12:59 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | It's too damn cold for about 6 weeks during the winter and too damn hot for about 6 weeks during the summer. The other 40 weeks of the year are just about right.
Quit yer whining ya sissy bedwetter!
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01-15-2009, 01:01 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreal | | | i was born here, and my parents live here
which means i live here
i wouldnt move anywhere else in the world though
i love this city
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01-15-2009, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex It's too damn cold for about 6 weeks during the winter and too damn hot for about 6 weeks during the summer. The other 40 weeks of the year are just about right.
Quit yer whining ya sissy bedwetter! | Pretty much says it. You have to put up with the crap to have the good. I don't worry about getting shot, my kid can play outside, the air is (mostly) clean, we have lots of recreational options, and generally people are nice.
The extreme cold tends to keep the "less desirable" people away.
I have been wondering a bit this week though as it hasn't been above zero for days. |
01-15-2009, 01:04 PM
|  | Special User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Saint Paul, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveC I have been wondering a bit this week though as it hasn't been above zero for days. | I'm usually pretty stoic, but I don't know about this week. |
01-15-2009, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle | | Cause every place I go that is warm...
...is usually infested with Californians and/or Floridians!!  |
01-15-2009, 01:29 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | My parents live here, so so do I.
Plus we're so much closer to skiing. |
01-15-2009, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Memphis,Tn | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd Cause every place I go that is warm...
...is usually infested with Californians and/or Floridians!! | ha, that's funny... |
01-15-2009, 01:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Switzerland | | | I know all about cold. I grew up in Montreal, lived in the high arctic (Resolute Bay, Hall Beach, NWT) and Calgary. After living in the Persian Gulf for three years and enjoying palm trees and beaches, I realized winter cold is not for me. we're having our worst winter in Switzerland in seven years and it has not dropped below -5C or roughly 20-25F.
Not interested in cold weather anymore. Been there. Done that.
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01-15-2009, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: chicago | | | i can deal with weather above 20F. But when it starts going lower to 10F, to 0 and negative. I start cursing everything.
Is it the global warming? That's why is so @# cold?
In my first summer here I went to the lake, there was a side where they have a track for bikes, so it's only pavement, then the lake. I saw someone laying down on a towel on the pavement. I thought that was the funniest and ridiculous thing.
Now I think I am going to be one of those people. |
01-15-2009, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TallLankyBastyd Cause every place I go that is warm...
...is usually infested with Californians and/or Floridians!! | So true...so true. Don't forget the Texans, as well.
For me, I live in a (semi) cold city because I enjoy winter weather. I love the snow. I like to drive in the snow. I love walking in the snow. I love hunting in the snow. I even like camping in the snow. I still kick myself for not taking advantage of the opportunity I had, many years ago, to work for a season in Antarctica. Colorado is nice because we get all 4 seasons. This helps to appreciate each one even more. |
01-15-2009, 02:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | Quote:
Originally Posted by crow01 I have been living in chicago for 3 years. It is a great city and I have been dealing ok with the winters. The summers have been great.
Today was -20F. Horrible day. I don't have to shovel snow but still c'mon, it is getting as cold as the north pole. I am about to call it quits.
Maybe move to AZ or California.
Why do people like it here? Why do you live in a cold city? | you should still feel lucky, i would kill to be located in chicago. |
01-15-2009, 02:09 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by santucci218 you should still feel lucky, i would kill to be located in chicago. | Lot of people in Chicago feel the same way.
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01-15-2009, 02:11 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | I don't.
Personally I like living where it's warm but still within a two hour drive of the snow AND the beach. Not to mention a much shorter drive to wine country.
But honestly, outside of family and work are there many other reasons why people live where they do? |
01-15-2009, 02:13 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO Not to mention a much shorter drive to wine country. |
^ That's what I call my basement.
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01-15-2009, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Norway | | | Because if I get frostbite here, the state pays for the treatment.
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01-15-2009, 02:22 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada | | | -32C today. Mighty cold.
I live here becuase I live with my parents. Once I graduate highschool I am going to texas for firefighting school. No more cold for me! |
01-15-2009, 02:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Suffolk County,NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by crow01 I have been living in chicago for 3 years. It is a great city and I have been dealing ok with the winters. The summers have been great.
Today was -20F. Horrible day. I don't have to shovel snow but still c'mon, it is getting as cold as the north pole. I am about to call it quits.
Maybe move to AZ or California.
Why do people like it here? Why do you live in a cold city? | I'm in NY, currently looking for subzero tonight. I live here (aside from being from here) for the cycle of seasons. I've tried to be in single season situations and it just doesn't work for me. I like the metaphor of the changes, In that it won't be winter forever. and the sense of humor that states "don't like the weather? Wait an hour." Nothing like Times Square on a cold windy day, with the gale howling down 48th or that same day on the barrier beaches that are warm and welcome in the summer. This is getting me in deep so I'm done now,That's why, the end. |
01-15-2009, 02:24 PM
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