I've done 38 years in Chicago, and 28 years in Arizona. I wouldn't do another Midwestern Winter if you bought me a 7 digit home there, and paid the taxes and utilities for the rest of my life. I hated the winters and never got used to them. Your vehicles all turn into a rusty POS in 5 years or less, from all of the corrosive road salt they dump all Winter long. Exhaust or shock absorber work is done with air chisels, not wrenches.
Every year I managed to get the flu. As soon as the first cold snap hit, people would come into work, all snotting, sniffling, and sneezing. Within a week I caught it. My knees would ache from the cold, damp weather constantly. I lived on Tylenol from November to May.
You had 90 day Summers, (June, July, and August), half of which it was either raining, or else threatening to. I never knew how short a Midwestern Summer was until I bought a boat. I only saw it 3 months out of the year. The rest of the time I was paying monthly fees while it was sitting in storage.
As soon as the Sun dipped below the horizon, you had to go inside, or else get eaten alive by Mosquitos. In the Winter below zero temperatures were common after January. Praying your car would start, so you could get to work. And if it did, you froze your ass off scraping ice and snow off the windows, and while driving it until it warmed up.
Since we moved to Arizona I have never had to concern myself with any of that. I feel great. The Sun shines over 300 days a year. My house is cool, comfortable, and DRY. I never have had to pull guns out of my safes to wipe them down. (In Illinois I had to do it every month or risk rust). I can change 10 year old shock absorbers with a Crescent wrench. (I say that because I've done it.) And I have NEVER gotten the flu, or a Mosquito bite in the last 28 years we've been out here.