When the weatherman talks about the expected balmy 10 degrees and he isnt talking Celcius
When your “heated underground enclosed parking stop” means the low 30s
When your parents visit the US and send you a prepaid ticket so that you can meet them in a warmer part of the country.
When you wonder if that -20F washer fluid you bought for you car can really stand the weather
When your car uses more gas to warm you up then it does to get to work
When you are less likely to fall ice skating over to your car for the first time in your life then you are from walking over
and finally when a snow emergency means theres more inches of snow then the height of your car and its an emergency not because there is snow but because you cant find your car.
But anyway. Once you've lived in a place where it's so hot you can pretty much bake cookies on your forehead by spreading a layer of dough in place of Coppertone SPF30 before leaving the house in the mornings, where you can't sit outside for more than 10 minutes before feeling, for what seems to always feel like the first time, each and every time, (obviously because it's just so darn painful) like the Wicked Witch of the West, without the bucket of water which in this case might actually prove helpful (or was that another story?) Whatever the case, I'd so much rather live in a place where it's cold, where you can layer up (what are cashmere sweaters, leather jackets, and pashminas for, anyway?), than a place where it's so hot you could almost swear it's so close to boiling point that your blood's starting to seethe (and you know you really can't take off much else without offending someone).