Fall is the year's most overrated season. There. I said it.

[Tommy Carcetti]

And on this hill, I die.

People use the alluring scents and tastes of pumpkin spice to distract themselves from the sobering fact that the plants and leaves around them are slowly dying, and within a matter of weeks most places in this country will be nothing but dark and cold and barren wastelands bereft of any life or joy.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Dude, you're in Florida

What do you know?

[Tommy Carcetti]

3. True.

But in my years up north, I still never got the allure of fall. It always depressed me.

[BeyondGeography]

7. It's one way to look at it

But September is often the best weather we have all year up here. And the colors are awesome. I’ve even grown to love those bare November days, as Frost called them. Vistas opening up as the leaves disappear and it’s still not too cold. A different type of beauty. Winter is fine, too, from my POV. Fires, comfort food…Xmas anywhere else never made sense to me.

Post-Presidents Day, I’ve had enough. You’re looking at darkness and muddy March. So six weeks out of the year, I would trade places. Otherwise, I love it here in the northeast.

[Coventina]

2. If you lived where I do, you wouldn't feel that way.

Fall is when things finally start to come alive again.....

[ailsagirl]

37. .....

[ailsagirl]

56. Interesting...

Awhile back I posed the question, "Which is your favorite season?" and overwhelmingly Autumn won out.

I was surprised-- I had assumed most people would say summer.

[yellowdogintexas]

50. no kidding. Heat wave dissipates and it is so pleasant to be outside

I love fall in Texas

I hated fall in KY because I had severe pollen allergies to Maidenhair, corn pollen and goldenrod. I sneezed and had a flooding raging nose from mid August all the way through the first hard frost in late October.

Eventually I developed enough antibodies to reduce my misery

Now that I live in Texas it is the damn cottonwoods. Bradford pears are pretty nasty too.

[Scrivener7]

4. It's my favorite!

[Tetrachloride]

5. The dormancy of ticks and mosquitoes is a blessing

My neighbor is afflicted by Lone Star tick. Constant allergic itching.

Fall tree planting, corn harvest.

For me, autumn means i can do work that needs to be done before winter and not in summer.

Actually autumn is pretty warm. Tick precautions dont stop.

[4Q2u2]

6. Shh The Evergreen's will hear you.

I guess you are not a Skier. Lots of beauty and life in the Winter hills.

[House of Roberts]

8. Fall is the end of heat and humidity.

I have my AC unit off for the first day today. High of 70, and as soon as I'm sure the rain is gone, the windows get opened.

Summer is overrated. Winter here in North Alabama isn't usually extreme, except for the occasional polar vortex cold snaps. Spring isn't quite as good as fall, due to the pollen.

[Wingus Dingus]

9. Yes. Agreed.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I love fall!

It’s my favorite season! I love the cooler, crisp weather, the smell in the air, the beautiful colors of the leaves changing (although I do miss the vibrant greens of spring and summer). Cooking soups and stews, the smell of fireplaces, apple cider, etc.

[Freddie]

12. Me too

My favorite season. It always feels like we’re going back to “normal” with kids back in school and back to regular routines after summer which seems to change all the time (vacations etc). Not crazy about hot weather so the cool evenings feel refreshing right now.

[Marthe48]

11. The lawn mowers, atvs, hand tools are put away

and I can look forward to months of silence

[The Magistrate]

13. I Much Prefer Fall, Sir

It matches my usual mood....

[Polly Hennessey]

14. The only season I despise is summer.

Bugs, air conditioning, heat and humidity, the oppressive stillness of a hot day, carrying a bottle of water with me because I am hot and thirsty. I love fall, it is cozy and beautiful, colorful, sipping whiskey sours. I love winter, it is pine trees, skiing, and hot buttered rum. I love spring, it is serene, green lawns, daffodils, blue skies, frosty margaritas. I dread Memorial Day - the beginning of summer. I love Labor Day - the end of summer.

[Tomconroy]

15. I like everything except winter. I'm going to figure out how to

Be a snowbird.

[hlthe2b]

16. It is finally cool enought to do things. I'd say you must have seasonal affective disease (SAD) but

damn.. you are in Florida?

Well, maybe it is just ALL-SEASON DeSantis affected disease-- that I could understand and sympathize.

[Tommy Carcetti]

17. Even in Florida, I do hate when the days get shorter.

But when I lived up north, I just found fall...depressing. Brown and full of dead leaves, all while growing progressively colder and colder.

I hate cold weather in general, but at least winter had no pretense about it. Fall, on the other hand, gets talked up as if it is the best season when all I see about it is slow death.

Spring, on the other hand, was undeniably magical.

(And yes, I am an unapologetic advocate of summer. Yes, even Florida summer. Actually, especially Florida summer.)

[Biophilic]

25. And Fall and Winter are absolutely essential for all the things we love about Spring and Summer nt

[spooky3]

28. I'm with you. I much prefer spring, followed by summer. Nt

[Hoyt]

18. End of 90+ degree, high humidity days is reason enough to celebrate. Besides, in last decade or so

it's still 70+ degrees at Christmas.

[smirkymonkey]

30. I agree! I hate summer, especially the humidity.

Even today here in Boston, the Dew point is 66 and the electricity is off in our building today so it’s just uncomfortably warm. I hate sweating! I love the cool, crisp days of fall.

[3catwoman3]

44. I detest hot and sticky. I've often said that if I had to choose between...

…having air conditioning and having a refrigerator, I would happily but a very large ice chest and shop for ice every day rather than not have AC.

If it never got warmer than 75-78, that would be fine with me.

[smirkymonkey]

47. The electricity finally went back on at around 5pm.

And it was SUCH a relief! What a difference it makes. I think it is just the de-humidifying effect that is so powerful. It wasn't even really that hot today, but w/out any AC or fan, and a dew point at 66 it was just miserable in my apartment.

I am so willing to pay an extra $150 per month to keep my apartment cool in the summer. I absolutely HATE the heat and humidity!

[3catwoman3]

49. I totally wilt and become very cranky when it feels sticky.

I’m so glad for you that you have your power and AC back.

[smirkymonkey]

52. Thanks 3catwoman3!

I was pretty miserable most of the day. You don't realize how much you miss it until you don't have it!

[bigtree]

19. actually

...most are just sleeping.

Fall is a time of regeneration in colder climates. A time to tend to your roots, and brace against the winter cold. Gone are the colorful trappings - revealing stoic bark, and highlighting evergreen resiliency against the bleak terrain.

In all of this, a promise to rejuvenate itself again when Spring stages its triumph over light and dark, and builds once more to the pinnacle of the Summer solstice.

[jimfields33]

20. Two awesome holidays though

Halloween and thanksgiving. Yummy thanksgiving especially. And Veterans Day is nice as well. I do like the leaves changing. It is beautiful.

[Tommy Carcetti]

21. Actually, I admit I love Thanksgiving.

Not necessarily as it relates to fall, but just as a holiday in general.

Gets the shaft because of Christmas and yet it's so much better in its simplicity. All you have is food and--for better or worse--family.

Probably my favorite holiday, along with 4th of July.

[jimfields33]

22. I agree. Actually I prefer thanksgiving to Christmas for sure

Less stressful. People having fun eating watching parade and or football. Nothing better.

[Ocelot II]

23. I like it, except for the fact that everybody wants to sell you pumpkin spice-flavored

or -scented stuff, which is horrible, except for pumpkin pie itself. But it's cooler, the leaves are colorful (although TFG has sort of ruined the color orange for me), and after everything dies off I won't have to do yard work. The air feels cleaner and the sky seems bluer. Maybe this year I'll put out my Halloween decorations. November can seem kind of gloomy until it snows, but when the snow comes I can get out my cross-country skis, and I am looking forward to that. I like the change of seasons, which in these parts can be pretty dramatic.

[3catwoman3]

45. I was never a big fan of orange. And, I did not wear anything red...

…from the day after Election Day 2016 until Biden’s inauguration this year. Kinda nice to go back to it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. No, that would be summer. Other than growing our food, summer can go screw itself.

At least, summer in those areas of the world that get mostly spent higher than 85 degrees and humid and filled with allergens.

[Tommy Carcetti]

26. I'm all about summer.

Summer is what it says it is.

And it both challenges you to brave its elements, and rewards you when you have successfully managed to do so.

No other season does that. There's winter--which like summer and unlike fall, has no pretense--but basically "beating the cold" means just staying inside or putting on extra layers of clothing, so...meh.

The only thing bad about summer for me--and I do mean the only thing? Gnats. Terribly annoying.

But the heat and humidity part? Bring it on.

[Trailrider1951]

27. HA! Try living in Houston, TX

Long about that last week of August, when the temperature has been over 100* F for about the last month, you hope and pray for that first hint of cooler weather. I lived there for 25 years, and I could not wait for the end of summer! Life there begins with the Autumnal Equinox!

[ailsagirl]

36. Amen!!

[3catwoman3]

46. The same for the Washington, DC area.

We lived near Andrews AFB for 8 years. Very interesting area to live in, but the summers are absolutely oppressive - 95 degrees and 95% humidity all summer long. Yuck!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

29. I prefer Fall and Spring.

Not too hot, not too cold... just right.

I dread Summer the most.

I did a mitochondrial DNA test a couple years ago, which can trace the origins and migrations of the all-maternal lineage, and I learned that my mitochondria are about the least efficient and heat-producing on the planet. So I'm expected to be a bad long-distance runner (true), but also warmer than most people in cold climates (also true). My mother's ancestors apparently lived in the most Northern parts of Eurasia for thousands of years.

[ailsagirl]

35. I absolutely DREAD summer's advent. I'm with you!!! n/t

[jcgoldie]

31. I like fall but...

The sense of impending doom fucks it for me. Winter is coming 🙁

[bronxiteforever]

32. Disagree. Stephen King speaks for me.

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

[Harker]

33. In the sad event that you do die on that hill...

I'll cover you up with beautiful leaves.

[ailsagirl]

34. I LOVE autumn!

Really nothing more to say except it's such a blessing to move out of the unbearably stifling season that is known as summer.

[Kaleva]

38. The various species have to die or go into dormancy in order to ensure their survival

[Totally Tunsie]

39. Fall is magnificent!

It's by far my favorite season. Not only is it beautifully colorful, but that first hint of crisp air after a sticky summer is more than welcomed. I feel alive in the fall after suffering through heat and humidity.

Winter is my second favorite. I love the cold and anticipate the snow. You can always put on a warm sweater if necessary, but there's just so much you can remove in the summer and still be legal.

I tolerate spring only because of the new blooms and hints of life in the garden. In New England, we call it "mud season" - the sad end of the ski season.

I hate summer!

[a kennedy]

40. Ok, ok, quit it.......I hear ya, death.

Autumn, never really thought about death, I just love the colors, the feel, the fun that is college and pro football. So ok, thanks for ruining this season for me.

[Totally Tunsie]

41. Timing is everything. Today's MSN survey addresses the same topic.

Here are their results:

How do you feel about autumn?
56% It's my favorite season
31% At least it's not as hot
6% I dread it every year
7% No opinion

[kairos12]

42. Blasphemy I say! I'll leaf you know.

[Talitha]

43. Fall's ok for me.

It's Winter that's overrated.

I'm in upper Wisconsin and cannot understand peoples' fascination with outdoor winter activities. Snowmobiles, ice fishing, hockey, ice skating, sledding, skiing. Ugh.

We loved vacationing up here, but I never would have agreed to re-locate if I'd ever experienced a Northwoods Winter. The cold doesn't bother me as much as the snow. Every time Mother Nature takes a leak, it needs to be swept, blown, or plowed away. Ugh.

(rant over )

[3catwoman3]

48. We lived in the UP for 4 long winters.

You know it’s damn cold when you walk outside and all the little hairs inside your nose freeze up in a nanosecond. Not much different where you are, I suspect, and not a whole lot different in the greater Chicago area, where we are now.

We used to kid around that we were among the few people who had to go south to get to Green Bay -

[Ocelot II]

51. Frozen nose hairs! Yup.

In the upper Midwest the cold air can actually hurt. A nice thing about spring, when it finally comes, is that you don't cringe when you go outside.

[Talitha]

55. And some folks get the Bermuda shorts out in March...

Looks a bit silly when someone wears Bermuda shorts and a parka, but like Red Green always said, 'ya just wanna be comfortable.

[Talitha]

54. It still scares me when I hear trees go 'pop' like a cannon, hahaha.

Small world, I was born and raised in Chicago. TBH, winters seem colder down there than they do up here - probably because of Lake Michigan. The dampness seems to drive the cold right through you.

Ah, 'needle-nose'. That's what the kids called it when they were little.

[3catwoman3]

57. Needle nose - what a descriptive term! I will use it henceforth.

I was born in Chicago. My dad grew up on Hyde Park, and his childhood home still stands in one of the neighborhoods where they don't allow any changes to the look of the outside of houses. My parents started moving when I was only 6 months old, and finally settled in Rochester NY when I was 8. 7 moves by then, and not in the military.

Back in the area since 1994. My husband was flying for United at the time, and the O'Hare hub was not as top-heavy with high seniority pilots as the Washington DC hub, so he thought he might move up a little faster.

No family left here, so there wasn't much of a "returning to my roots" feeling, plus we are in the far northwest suburbs and are actually closer to the Wisconsin state line than we are to the city.

Damp cold and damp heat both suck.

[Ocelot II]

58. Swear to God, Chicago is the coldest city in the universe.

Minneapolis, where I live, is technically much colder, but it's a dry cold. You freeze your nose hairs but the cold doesn't seep into your bones.

[Rhiannon12866]

53. I've never been a fan of fall.

It meant going back to school and that summer's over and winter's coming. Of course I'm much less a fan of winter. I live in the Northeast.