#like imagine carrying a sweater with you when it's 115 out bc you're headed to a restaurant. i looked insane

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the nearly inevitable reaction when people find out i moved from tx to mn is some version of "but the COLD" and i can say with absolute, 100% confidence that there is no winter frigid and miserable enough to make me ever, ever regret escaping from those summers. when you first move to tx people love to tell you, red in the face, looking like they're actively dying of heat stroke, that "you'll get used to the heat." well i lived there for over a decade and maybe other people are just built different but i'm firmly of the opinion that those temperatures are simply not something you can ever adjust to. like i think it was extremely brave of me to go to the gym during my lunch breaks because stepping out of the air conditioned y into the 110 degree 80% humidity summer isn't the definitive worst my body has ever felt, but it's up there. if you've never felt heat you'd describe as "oppressive" let me assure you it's real and it means you harm. so yeah, fuck that, i LOVE the cold. just a handful of years here and my vascular system is like yeah man i can do this. 45 degrees? that's t-shirt and flannel weather baby. like yes there are a few days a year where it's so cold that it hurts but for the most part you wear the right clothes and it's completely fine. i'll happily spend half of every year slogging through the snow to get to my bus stop if it means i never again have to experience a texas summer