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Originally Posted by FlDebra  I know the driving up around Chicago can get very treacherous -- glad you made the wise decision to come back home. I used to live in Northbrook and those were the coldest winters in my memory! I remember having to go into Chicago for work, parking my car, trying to walk down the snowy/icy sidewalk, and then getting slammed up against a brick building by a wind gust. My cheek was all scraped -- you could see the ridges from the brick imprint for weeks. I think I might have made my decision to retire in the south that very day! |
When we were showing our house in Florida a man from Scotland looked at it and asked us where we were moving to. We told him we were heading back to Illinois and he looked shocked. His reply was "The Midwest...man...you people are a sturdy lot!" He went on to say that he could never handle the wild weather we get here and he thought we were brave for heading back home! Is that the impression other people have about us Midwesterners?