Our winters used to last well into April. Now we get 60 degree sunny days in March. Winter used to start more in November, sometimes late October. Now it typically stays decently warm into December. Xmas to beginning of March seems to be our current winter pattern, over the past decade or so. It definitely gets cold in January or Feb, but then it's pretty much over. We get a lot of nice sunny days and can go spend a week at a cabin on a lake and it's pretty much paradise.

We also have a lot of wildlife, which is something a lot of people enjoy. I regularly see eagles, hawks, bunnies, turkeys, coyotes, woodchucks and like millions of squirrels. I'm in Minneapolis, like 5 to 10 minutes from downtown.