Originally Posted by
BGrayvy
I moved here from Chicago in '97 and I'll take our winter over yours. I still have painful memories of huddling in the stairwell to stay out of the wind and snow at our Metra stop near Clyborn. That, and having to put neoprene mittens on my dogs' feet so his pads wouldn't fuse together on after-work walks.
I'm another Chicago transplant (2001).
We have a whole closet of super-heavy "Chicago winter wear" that we never use in Seattle. But we now have an entire new wardrobe of "wet weather wear" -- light, medium, heavy.
My wife liked cold and snowy. I like gray and rainy better. My Springer Spaniel, who was known to climb over the ice to jump in Lake Michigan in January, will swim in any kind of weather, so he's indifferent.