Yes. I kinda like the extremes in daylight we have. I wish they were even more more extreme though. I'd love to live further north such as The Shetland Islands or even Iceland where it stays at twilight in the summer and hardly get light in the winter. Around the equinox when it gets light at 6-7am and dark at 6-7pm is just too boring.
I also like how the twilight phase (the period between sunset and nightfall or first light and sunrise) is much longer the further north you go.
In fact twilight is shortest at the equinox's and longest at the summer solstice, but in the winter it is a bit longer too. Where I live, around the equinox, the period from sunrise/sunset to the beginning/end of nautical twilight (I don't count astro twilight because it is pitch black then anyway) is just over an hour but in winter It is 1 hour and 30 minutes (45 mins of civil twilight and 45 mins of dawn/dusk). It compares nothing to the summer of course when it's light half the night but there you go.
You can see the times of dawn/dusk here:
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/manchester.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/manchester
I've got used to the dark nights now. Now I have to come to terms to the fact the days are going to get longer again, and the daylight will be more "normal" again, NOOOOOOOO!!!