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Originally Posted by marothisu
Agree.. though for me it was so many people. I dont know why but strangers like to randomly tell me their problems in real life even when I dont say a word to them. Random strangers everywhere always had this type of attitude regarding the weather. So many people I interacted with thought Chicago was even worse than places like Minneapolis. I'd show my coworkers the weather in Minneapolis and they'd always have this dumbfounded look as if no place should be worse than Chicago.
Funniest thing I saw related to this was right after the blizzard in 2010 or 2011. The news was out in my neighborhood and a couple was out walking. Guy stops them on tv and asks how they're doing and if they've experienced anything like it before. The guy says something like "Actually we are visiting from Maine. We have this all the time and it's normal for us." and leaves without the guy on TV being able to get a word in. The look on his face was priceless iirc.
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Also it's not just Chicagoans. It's not uncommon for people from outside Chicago to think winters here are Siberia-level cold and snow. That's probably not in small part to our penchant for exaggeration.
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