• Ashen44@lemmy.ca
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      I live in a place that has -40°C winters and +40°C summers now 👍

      God I sure do love global warming

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      Montana, here.

      Nothing quite like when it hits -45°F and you have to start closing off rooms and stuffing blankets into registers and doorway cracks.

      Any kind of outdoor airflow can burn so bad that skin necrosis can begin in just 5 minutes.

      Summer in Arizona is shitty. Winter in the Northern Rockies will straight up murder you.

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        You shouldnt let the house go below 14-isch degrees since that would create kondensation that might hurt the structure or promote fungal growth. My house is between 15 to 20 degrees in winter and at 15 I can feel my body stiffen due to cold

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          If I had a choice mate I wouldn’t let it haha. I live in Australia, we make houses that don’t qualify as tents in the rest of the world.

          No real insulation (tiny amount in roof but downlights punch a hole through it), single glazed windows, doors that don’t seal. Power costs too much to run heating :') it’s good shit.

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            One of my coworkers is an Aussie and we live somewhere that the winters hover around 0 C. I was trying to explain that snow here is annoying but it never feels truly cold, and the incredulous facial expression I got back reminded me of the vastly different experiences of humanity.

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              When I moved to Los Angeles, I opened a bank account and while chatting with the bank employee, I found out she’d never seen snow up close. She’d only ever seen it on the mountains in the distance. That boggled my mind.

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              I have had friends from colder places come stay and say they’ve never felt as bitterly cold as winter in Sydney.

              When I spent some time in the snowfields in aus I was actually warm. Turns out if you build houses properly you don’t even really need much heating. Residual heat from cooking and body heat hangs around for a long time, we’d only light the fire mornings and evenings.