What is it with people from Chicago that they're so happy to have been born there? I meet so many people who can't wait to tell me they're from Chicago and when I meet them, they're living anywhere but Chicago.
Because of the Weather.
It's a survivor thing.
If they survived all those winters as a kid, it's something you carry with you forever. You'll brave Zika or heat stroke to never have to shovel frozen snow again. And that plowed snow that's been salted and ashed so it weighs a ton and only comes up in huge chunks. Yeah, I can see why folks hate it. Or just finishing shoveling something and either have the plow wreck all your hard work or another snow flurry just buries everything you just did. I saw more than a few people completely lose it in their driveways when stuff like that would happen.
I only lived in snow for 4 winters and they weren't good ones, each one setting some kind of winter record, but I really liked winter.
The only thing I really didn't like was going into a building when it was below freezing outside and the inside was like 68 degrees and it felt like my face was burning off.
When I was younger I'd been to Vegas when it was near 120 and going in and outside didn't bother me as much. Prolly would be more upsetting now, but back then it didn't bother me very much at all.
But yeah... coming in from the outside when it was below freezing outside used to be just awful.