Its just, I lived in Arizona for a good number of years, and I could never fathom why people would wanna wake up every day and stare at endless sky and dirt, when you can come to Western WA and see so much LIFE
I would have to agree on living in Arizona. I spent a few Christmas holidays in Florida, and I never really want to do it again.
There is something special to me about experiencing the seasons of the weather here in Chicago. Of course I dont' actually live in Chicago, but I often use that as a simple way of telling people generally where I live. I'm in the far west suburbs, about an hour outside of the city.
I like having snow believe it or not. I don't like driving in it, or scraping it off my car or driveway, but it's just that time of year. I also like the Spring, and it's cool dry air. It's really pretty cool as you enter March/April and the weather starts warming up again. You appreciate it more, you enjoy the difference it makes. Then you have the full on summer months where it's 80's and 90's most of the time. Then we enter fall, and things get cold again, and the leaves change colors, and they eventually fall off completely.
I don't know why, but there is a certain romanticism with the seasons for me. There is something boring about the same old 75 degree day in the southern states of the U.S.