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no_clipping t1_j279md6 wrote

There are a lot of good things to this state, many that people have mentioned already, but you should also be prepared for the bad. The winters can be brutal and depressing, be prepared to spend the 3 coldest months barely ever seeing sunlight. The culture here is a lot more closed off than the rest of the country too. That's not to say people are unkind - but you may find it difficult to spontaneously make friends the way you can in other regions, it takes some deliberate effort.

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WinsingtonIII t1_j28yxl3 wrote

They are coming from Idaho, they should be able to handle our winters. Boise actually gets less sun in the winter than Boston does, for instance 105 hours of sunlight in Boise in December versus 142 hours in Boston (it actually gets a smaller percent of its possible sunlight in the winter than Boston, only around 30-40% sunlight in winter in Boise versus 50-60% in Boston). That said, Boise is sunnier in the summer than Boston, and also much hotter and dryer in the summer.

Average winter temperatures are almost the same between Boise and here, it's a difference of only a couple degrees.

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