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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet the the troll who started this thread didn’t expect so many pro-winter responses. [/quote]

+1. I have the Oberlin I’d home ahead of the blizzard.  My initial concern with north wasn’t snow or cold. It’s the dark. I have seasonal affective disorder and moving 250 miles north to the DMV did a number on me the first couple of years. It would be hard for me to live north of the DMV.  But that’s me.  DS is fine. DD had some depression issues during fall of 2021/ distance learning pushed back against northern schools. I think she did the right thing. [/quote]

Truth.  I have many friends from Alaska, and no one talks about the cold bothering them, it's the dark.  FWIW, they also think DC is cold -- it's the humidity and wind.  In inland Alaska, it's generally pretty still and dry when it's super cold.  [/quote]

This is a good point!  The cold/winter experience varies based on way more than just the temperature.  I grew up outside of Buffalo, NY where there's tons of lake effect snow.  It's cold like it currently is in the DMV (which is not really cold in the grand scheme of things and feels significantly warmer if you're in a house/region/clothes designed for it), but with never-ending snow.  I figured out why people found winter depressing when I moved to Boston -- it was 10-15 degrees warmers and only snowed during blizzards.  Where I grew up, even though the sun was down 16 hours a day, it was never really *dark* because there was always a fresh fall of snow on everything and the world just glittered.  Sunny days were almost too bright; clouds or moonlight on the snow was perfect.  Boston, on the other hand, had similarly short days but without snow and it was horrible and grimy and miserable.  You really can't enitrely extrapolate from even just temperature/latitude.[/quote]

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