Advise. Go to Stockholm Sweden. I've lived there twice; once for 3 months and the other time 1 month. Mid summer is amazing. Learn to love coffee and fika.
Unfortunately Dec/Jan are pretty grim. It's cool -- once -- to use your subway fare to take a tiny ferry that breaks through the crust of ice. But not seeing the sun, except for a dim, watery glimmer around lunch time, is not nice at all.