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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
I've never really give much thought to the "what climate would I like to live in" question.
I was born in Chicago. I've always lived in Chicago. And I will one day die in Chicago.
So whether or not this is a "good" climate is pretty much irrelevant to me. It just is what it is. Little more than background noise.
I sure as shit ain't ever moving somewhere else for something as mundane as the weather.
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I feel the same about Phoenix. I haven't always lived here, and am not yet fully resigned to dying here. But I was born here, lived here most of my life, family lives here, and the weather is not going to be a major factor in whether I stay.
I do like the weather. ~8 months of not even really having to think about the weather. And in the extreme summers, I get a sick satisfaction out of accepting the fact that I'm a desert rat, and leaning into the harsh summers. There's a great quote from 'Watership Down' (the novel) where the author muses that "many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it." I feel the same about our extreme summers: I couldn't say I enjoy them, but there is a satisfaction in enduring them.