Moved from New England to the DMV. Didn't miss snow at all (although we got a little bit). Now in Minnesota and hate, but tolerate, the winter.
The dream is to move to the West Coast, but the CoL is sky high most anywhere we'd actually want to live. Also, we'd have to time a change of jobs with our kid's change in schools.
We get massive pile ups with dozens of cars every year in the Twin Cities. "Defensive driving" doesn't do shit when everyone else is driving like a maniac -- hell, when *anyone* makes a *mistake*.
Grew up in Minnesota for my first 25 years then moved to Texas. It's been strange. When I was in MN the winter felt totally normal, and it never really registered with me that other places just... don't have winter. The first year I was in Dallas it got to be Christmas and it was 70 degrees out. That's when it really hit me like holy shit it's really just not going to get cold is it? Nowadays I cannot even imagine living in MN where it starts to get freezing cold in late September, early October. It's still dead of summer here in Austin at that time of year. Shit it was 80 and sunny just yesterday.
Another big difference is the amount of extra daylight we have down here in the winter.
Sunrise/sunset
Minneapolis 7:40 - 4:30
Austin 7:15 - 5:30
Iowa to Texas. I like Iowa winters way better. Texas is just 50 degrees and mud.
That's why I quoted you. Plenty of those people involved in that 60 car pile up earlier this year had snow tires and AWD and were driving defensively. Didn't help. And we'll see plenty more multi-car collisions this winter where at least one of the victims did everything right but got hosed anyway.
I live in the twin cities.
scariest driving I've ever been in was an ice storm in Nebraska. Shrugs.
It really is relative. Moving from Miami to NYC I would say it gets cold for way more than one month out of the year. :PIt gets cold for maybe a month out of the year. Its much windier than NH.
It really is relative. Moving from Miami to NYC I would say it gets cold for way more than one month out of the year. :P