Re:Chicago startup companies to watch in 2022
by tptacek on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:08PM
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Deep winter in Chicago is pretty miserable. I grew up with it and value the changing of the seasons (California has only two seasons: yellow season and wet grey season), but not wanting to gut out February here is a perfectly cromulent reason to avoid the place. If you don't have a pretty healthy social system with indoor stuff to do during the weekend, it can feel a little like living through 2020 did, but for a couple months every year. I'm happy to hang out with the whiskey list at Delilahs, seeing a concert or two, and snagging tables at Publican, Juno, and Duck Inn during those months, but if that's not your thing, I can see how this place would get bleak.
Lol if you hate the sun and love the mud, then yeah that time of year is fine.
> Then we're too humid to sustain human life until the end of August. Then we're the best city in the world again until early December.
Agreed, although I don't mind December if only because things still feel festive in the city, and we don't get properly cold until January anyway. I don't mind bundling up for ~30° days when the city is at its most charming. But when decorations come down after the new year, temperatures plummet, the city becomes collectively depressed, etc then it's a pretty miserable place to live (though surely there are worse places).