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I would imagine you're being downvoted by people who don't know what winter in Chicago is like. ^^

Hear, hear. The number one reason to move from Illinois to the Valley: ability to drive your car and not be snowed in on Lake Shore Drive.

My last winter in Illinois there were two weeks where the high temperature never got up as high as -15ºF. Pants freeze to your legs, glasses ice over in seconds, even if you're sufficiently bundled your eyeballs can get frostbite.

People underestimate how much nicer the world is away from the Chicago-Boston-DC triangle.

You're memory doesn't seem to go along with facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago#Temperature_...

Seems like the coldest high temperature in Chicago's recorded history was -11ºF

FWIW I've lived in both SF and Chicago and quite like Chicago's climate/seasons and really liked the city life much more than I did in SF (although the stuff a couple hours from SF is fantastic), and I'm not at all alone (I live in NY now)

I was in a small town downstate; the lake can actually moderate temperatures in Chicago proper. Downstate Illinois can have more Fargo or Minneapolis weather. Warms up faster in the spring, though.

I, and many other true Chicagoans, am very much proud of our winter weather, thank you very much.

Why??? How can you be proud of something you dont control? Its irrational.

I'm sure there's some psychological term for what long-time Chicagoans feel for the winter there... you'll find it amongst the chapters concerning victims who identify with their abusers. (I did my five years in Chicago and gtfo).

The term is "Stockholm syndrome", for the record.

It's become Tea party here, with old ladies talking bout weather.

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