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I live in Finland. Wouldn't mind a less wintery climate but not to the point of willing to move elsewhere.
Wanna swap? I'll come enjoy the snow, you can come to the UK and enjoy the, uh, rain.
It's not the winter wonderland many foreigners think it is, unless you go to Lapland. Most of the winter is just wet, cold, dark, slippery, and absolutely miserable. It's dark when you leave for work and it's dark when you get back home.
Ngl sounds good to me. I like it cold and dark. Did I mention I'm a mole?
Yeah sounds awesome to me too tbh. My mood brightens whenever I see snow and I don't find that low sunlight levels affect me at all.
However apparently between 1-10% of people are affected by seaonal affective disorder so those people may want to avoid Finland during the winter months
My wife's sister found she has SAD when she moved to sweden. One of her kids has it too. They cope with the lights and the , well, the understanding they're gonna be affected. They seem to suggest that it's not rare there, and that its frequency makes it more acceptable and understandable. It's okay to be super-down for a few days on a bad wave, and people seem to get it.
So, Chicago? Except I bet your winters are a bit longer than they are in Chicago.
I think that hardest part wouldn't be adjusting to the winter--I'm actually pretty okay with the kind of winter you describe--but the language. I hear that Finnish is very challenging for most people to learn to speak with any degree of fluency, unless they're raised with it.