in hot humid places you don’t have to shovel a driveway or get salt in your house
Posted on September 13, 2026 at 09:02:27 PM by DoctorD
it’s hot out in the summer? BFD. It’s called air conditioning. And you can do stuff either after the sun goes down or before it comes up. Good luck enjoying the outdoors during the brief sunlight of a Midwest winter.
In NC I can enjoy outdoor time 12 months a year.
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I don’t LOVE love winter, but it amazes me the lengths to which people will go to avoid it…
- By Craig
September 13, 2026 at 08:47:06 PM
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I don't hate winter, but I do love being able to just throw on some flip-flops, shorts, and a tee-shirt to go do what I want to do
- By WolvBlue
September 13, 2026 at 10:10:09 PM
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for most people winter completely blows ass. *
- By plug
September 13, 2026 at 09:43:43 PM
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I don’t hate winter, but I prefer living in Florida during it. 7-10 days around Christmas is sufficient. *
- By Mark II
September 13, 2026 at 09:37:52 PM
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I’m with you on this, but the advent of air conditioning makes the south and the terrible heat of the summer much more manageable.*
- By mjhollen
September 13, 2026 at 09:34:17 PM
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I moved from MI to FL six years ago and absolutely love it. I love MI, but the winters suck.*
- By apblue
September 13, 2026 at 09:30:16 PM
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New england has historically been way more expensive and QoL has not been that much higher in Great Lakes states unless you can buy into a nice suburb.
- By harbaughdyssey
September 13, 2026 at 09:20:11 PM
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in hot humid places you don’t have to shovel a driveway or get salt in your house
- By DoctorD
September 13, 2026 at 09:02:27 PM
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Get back to me when arthritis creeps into you body*
- By tem
September 13, 2026 at 09:00:46 PM
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I really don't get bothered by weather. Good weather, bad weather, cold, rain, heat, humidity - it all passes.
- By Alpo
September 13, 2026 at 08:59:02 PM
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I lived in New Orleans and the hot humid summers were 1,000,000 times worse than winter in Detroit. Moved back and I'm not the least bit sorry. *
- By Falco
September 13, 2026 at 08:56:44 PM
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For me March in SE MI is very much like Sept in Austin. On the whole I prefer MI and four true seasons.*
- By LewisBullox
September 13, 2026 at 08:55:19 PM
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Completely agree. I'll take winter over a brutal humid southern summer *
- By wingedvictory
September 13, 2026 at 08:53:43 PM
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Especially if you can work from home on like the especially shitty days, which everyone who possibly can should be able to do so...
- By jjwalker
September 13, 2026 at 08:53:42 PM
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I don't like it. Plan was always to take at least a couple trips to break it up after we moved back to MI. But...we had the means so we snowbird it. I really enjoy walking the beach every day instead of bundling up just to get the mail*
- By EricP
September 13, 2026 at 08:52:07 PM
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I live in the Cleveland area. I have a nice big home in the burbs. It is green and beautiful from April-Oct, then orange and beautiful through mid Nov. I viscerally hate winter.
- By Bluebuck
September 13, 2026 at 08:51:57 PM
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Yes, winter sucks. I grew up in a place where you routinely had to avoid doing things because you'd die on the roads or the road was covered in 3 feet of snow. It snowed in May. It snowed in Sep.
- By Daytripper
September 13, 2026 at 08:50:42 PM
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