Hot or cold?

[lindahoyland]

[Poll #2082860]

[Poll #2082861]

You can tell my brain is melting as I voted it was worse to be too cold, I meant too hot!

Comments

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's all in what you are acclimatised to. I live in Perth Western Australia where it gets quite hot, and prior to that I spent my childhood in the outback where it got very hot.

I've got people on my flist who live over in Europe, or in the very cold regions of America. I look at the photos that they post that they have taken during their winter and I don't know how they can survive in such a cold climate.
I would just lay down and die if I lived where they live.

I've never seen snow.

[feodora.livejournal.com]

Yes, when I was was in AUS (AGES AGO!!!) I got some strange views when I went into the sea at Bondy Beach in April and into the pool at the Youth Hostle in Broken Hill

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

I got some strange views when I went into the sea at Bondy Beach in April and into the pool at the Youth Hostle in Broken Hill

I've been at beaches down the SW in the winter and I've seen the occasional swimmer. I've immediately thought 'bat crazy tourists, if the sharks don't get them, they'll freeze to death'

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I'd probably lay down and die if I had to live in Perth. I can handle heat (badly) on a holiday but I wouldn't last for more than a few weeks! (We've been having temperatures of over 30°C for a week now and I can't wait for them to drop again.)

Thing is, I can always put on more clothing if I'm feeling cold. But I can't take off more than I'm wearing when it's too hot! XD

[lab-jazz.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I can always put on more clothing if I'm feeling cold. But I can't take off more than I'm wearing when it's too hot! XD

That's true. Though while you're inside, or in the car one is usually in an air conditioned environment. Though if one lived in a country where it didn't usually get hot enough to own an air conditioner and you had a prolonged heat wave you'd probably end up suffering quite a bit.

Every now and again we get news on the media over here of countries on the other side of the world where old people are dying of the heat. The temperatures given are to us not all that high, but again it's what you are acclimatised to.

Believe it or not there are many people in Perth, where our summer temperature can be over 40c for days and days on end, who don't live in an air conditioned house.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Though if one lived in a country where it didn't usually get hot enough to own an air conditioner and you had a prolonged heat wave you'd probably end up suffering quite a bit.

Yup, just as it sucks to live in a place that doesn't commonly do central heating and (above all) house insulation when it's hit by a cold spell. If you don't have heating and whatever warmth you've got leaves the house through the walls immediately, even 10°C can be really uncomfortable. (That's roughly what I'd consider my "cool enough to wear long sleeves but not cold enough to need a jumper" temperature, for the record!)

So yeah, it's all about what you're accustomed to and prepared for. (For me, 40°C would be a point at which I no loner care whether it's dry heat or humid heat because it's too much either way!)