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If it's cold I put on more clothes. Once it gets past like 80 I'm naked so how do I make more clothes off?

Plus I can run way faster when it is 20 out vs 100. Snow running rocks. Sun running is awful.

Part of the problem with winter is the availability of sunlight. "Seasonal Affective Disorder" is real and some people feel it more than others.

For me, living in the Northeast US, this is a sore point. Even more important than the cold temps or snow on the ground.

There are some alleviating actions one can take, like full spectrum lights, vitamins D etc., but they can never come close to the real deal. If sunnier places with dry, comfortable year around weather were a real and practical option, I'd move overnight, but am unable to move just yet due to family + affordability reasons.

I'm with you here. However, the summers are fantastic! Summer in the Boston area is as good as it gets anywhere I've been. It's just awfully short, and then it gets dark, and then I get dark.... :(

My argument is that we first evolved to sweat, not wear the skins of dead animals. I'll always be more comfortable dripping in a humid summer heat (moisture feels so natural on the skin) than in shivering for warmth. Watching the cold, dry air of winter suck the energy out of my breath is a reminder that I'm out of equilibrium with my surroundings (more so than normal, anyway), and that the universe seeks to rectify this. Cold is bitter and like death.

I enjoy running in the baking heat, soaking in the sun. My lungs don't get seared from the biting cold, and I can breathe. The feeling of evaporating sweat is glorious and invigorating; the shirt is optional.

I appreciate your personal opinion and experience, though. :)

My argument is that we first evolved to sweat, not wear the skins of dead animals

We may have come from Africa, but it was during the ice age that we really got going as a species. Rapid climate change forced us to develop improved tools and technology to survive. This eventually led to farming, agriculture, cities and modern civilization.

Without the cold, we'd probably have been quite happy staying in the trees.

Eh, no, alcoholism lead to farming.

If you need the booze, you need the bees, if you need the bees, you need to stay for the summer. If you want a year round supply you need storage, if you have storage that is not transportable, you have settled.

If you cultivate plants, you can up the numbers and found city states- but for that you allready have to be half way settled. Else that nomadic sheep guy from across the fence will drive his cattle through your fields.

Different strokes, I guess. I absolutely hate every minute the sky isn't a clear blue with that lovely unshielded fusion reactor in the sky bathing us in its mostly benign radiation :-) I accept other people like it different - anything not resembling California (or central Italy) summer plain sucks in my view, while others would like 9 months of rain and winter.

I grew up in upstate NY with long, long winters.

Have lived in Phoenix since 2003.

I curse at the Daystar about half the year

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