@h_thoreson The license plates should have "Hope you like snow, losers"

@sullybiker it's somehow classed as a humid continental climate but I really don't understand what makes it different from the parts of Canada or Alaska that are classed as subarctic or something similar. it's normal for it to snow at least some from mid-October through May. it's just vastly worse than even the more populated parts of the midwest around the great lakes that just plain get a bit more sun and a lot less of the horrible 40 mph winds straight out of, yeah, the arctic.

@h_thoreson One of those places I am drawn to, I must admit. But that would drive me crackers.

@h_thoreson There's nothing quite like Winter giving it a good old "Fuck you" in early Spring, just as everyone is happy to get out of it.

@sullybiker We got half an inch of snow this year where I live was all. I'm fine with that. A couple of days with pretty snow right at Christmas is cute. 7 months of that^^^^ makes people crazy.

@h_thoreson We usually don't get so much here, but it's cold enough that it forces everyone indoors all the time, and that's the bit I can't stand.

@h_thoreson My younger sister's colleague spent a year in Helsinki and she said that Winter basically finished her off, for much the same reason.

@sullybiker My relatives are mostly Norwegian and some of them have visited the relatives that are still in Norway. I have seen pictures of where those people live. It is at least scenic even if the winters are still probably abysmal. There's no similar reward for the misery in ND

@h_thoreson I looked on the map because I realized I couldn't think of a single place there. It's very...sparse.

@h_thoreson 'Nebraska, but colder'

@h_thoreson I thought the name had a Scandinavian ring to it!

@h_thoreson The n there's this crap, when it takes me 3hrs to get into work (thanks to pandemic remote practices we don't bother anymore, thank God)