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> We're the best city in the world from April to early June, for sure. Lol if you hate the sun and love the mud, then yeah that time of year is fine. > Then w

> We're the best city in the world from April to early June, for sure. Lol if you hate the sun and love the mud, then yeah that time of year is fine. > Then we're too humid to sustain human life until the end of August. Then we're the best city in the world again until early December. Agreed, although I don't mind December if only because things still feel festive in the city, and we don't get properly cold until January anyway. I don't mind bundling up for ~30° days when the city is at its most charming. But when decorations come down after the new year, temperatures plummet, the city becomes collectively depressed, etc then it's a pretty miserable place to live (though surely there are worse places).

tptacek 4y ago
Deep winter in Chicago is pretty miserable. I grew up with it and value the changing of the seasons (California has only two seasons: yellow season and wet grey season), but not wanting to gut out February here is a perfectly cromulent reason to avoid the place. If you don't have a pretty healthy social system with indoor stuff to do during the weekend, it can feel a little like living through 2020 did, but for a couple months every year. I'm happy to hang out with the whiskey list at Delilahs, seeing a concert or two, and snagging tables at Publican, Juno, and Duck Inn during those months, but if that's not your thing, I can see how this place would get bleak.