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I'm not a sun worshipper, burn very badly but if you'd asked me before 2011 I'd have said the same thing. I would have thought that 27°C day after day several months of the year and maybe getting into mid to high 30s was unbearable. On the coast it isn't, it's easily bearable. In land all right it is mad. On the coast after about 34 it does get too hot, but it's only like it when it gets to about 30C in this country. To my surprise other people thought it was too hot too. There isn't the humidity there is here and stuffily built houses we have here - high ceilings and drafts breezing through from one side of a building to another. The real surprise was the lack of clouds. It really is grey almost continuously in the north and north west of england (less so in the east and south east).
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Try living in the North West Highlands of Scotland for a few years if you want to see grey.
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Marshmallow_Fluff
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Bollocks! I am Greek. I lived all my life in hot climates and I am supposed to be tolerant to heat. My house in (a southern suburb of) Athens was overlooking the sea and I can promise you: your every day life during the hot summer months is HELL! Our houses are air-conditioned for most part of the year (8-20 months) which makes you feel like you've been hit by fire wall every time you dare to go out. Try walking for 20 minutes in your lunch break (assuming you have one when working in Greece, which hardly ever is the case) and you'll feel like you've ran a marathon. So, take my word for it, the heat IS unbearable!
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As a bi-cultural couple, it wasn't clear where home was for us. When the opportunity came up we went to Canada. I think it was a combination of the greyness and the pervasive casual racism that finally made us not regret leaving the UK, and the terrible work culture that meant that Japan was never going to be a long-term option. Canada does better on both fronts but it's certainly not the moderate, human rights-promoting place that it supposedly once was. But we found a community. We're only a ferry ride away from a town, but we don't have to lock our doors, kids run free, people share food and music and look out for each other. That's more important than the country we're in.
Well I haven't been that far south - there are sometimes big problems with heatwave deaths you see on the news. I can only talk from my experiences which are probably compared to the vast majority of people on this forum (as cyclists tend to travel a lot) extremely limited. My dad has never been aboard, my mum hasn't been abroad since she was a child in the mid-late 60s. Most of my friends I grew up with have rarely left the area they live in let alone been abroad. Many other people I've met at work or since have gone to Spain. Maybe I am just more resistant to heat than I think as I did do a lot of walking (upto ten miles) in heat and even a few long cycles. I noticed that various other people used to the heat all the time complained about how hot it was. In land and in very large cities the heat was unbearable.
martint235
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[QUOTE 2735587, member: 1314"]Aren't you too tall to go to Japan?[/quote]
I thought the Japanese were actually fairly tall and it was the Chinese who were a bit on the short side (to be fair this applies to most people I meet in London, on the short side, not Chinese)
I thought the Japanese were actually fairly tall and it was the Chinese who were a bit on the short side (to be fair this applies to most people I meet in London, on the short side, not Chinese)
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My daughters best mate has/had (RIP) a Japanese mother and an English father. He worked there as a TEFL teacher, but they settled in England. He said that he experienced a lot of Xenophobic behaviour there, and people would talk about him in the 3rd person when standing next to him, or just ignore him completely. They moved to the UK where they started a family. Daughters mate looks 100% Japanese, but is 99% English in her outlook (likes Sushi though). They are treated as outsiders when visiting the family in Japan. She has just gone off travelling to Oz so I'm wondering how she might find the reception there.
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I'd always wanted to try living somewhere outside of the UK, but had never really thought it would be permanent. Seven years on, it's starting to feel that it will be.
Growing up in a place like Basingstoke, which doesn't have any distinctive identity of its own, perhaps made me a bit less tied to the UK than might otherwise have been the case. Of the group of friends I spent most time with at school, one is in Sydney, one in California, one in Germany, one in NZ and a couple in the middle east, so I don't think it was just me.
Growing up in a place like Basingstoke, which doesn't have any distinctive identity of its own, perhaps made me a bit less tied to the UK than might otherwise have been the case. Of the group of friends I spent most time with at school, one is in Sydney, one in California, one in Germany, one in NZ and a couple in the middle east, so I don't think it was just me.
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Or maybe I have developed some sort of intolerance to heat due to over-exposure..
One thing for sure: I much prefer riding in freezing cold (and I am talking about turning-blue-cold) than in mid-summer, mid-day Med heat.. (plus I got a new soft shell, so bring on winter!
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We gave some very serious thought to moving to Amsterdam, the original plan being to go next summer after elder children had finished exams and before younger ones had started. Unfortunately things haven't quite gone to plan so we've had to think again. We won't have another window of opportunity for a good few years, but I would still like to go -possibly for a six month adventure with children, or more permanently after they've all left home.
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Or maybe I have developed some sort of intolerance to heat due to over-exposure..
One thing for sure: I much prefer riding in freezing cold (and I am talking about turning-blue-cold) than in mid-summer, mid-day Med heat.. (plus I got a new soft shell, so bring on winter!
I have a cousin in Malaysia who has been complaining about the heat last week (about 36c there now), Also got a Vietnamese born friend who said she finds it unbearable when visiting family over there now.
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Same as that! I try to avoid visiting Greece during the summer..
well.. I try to avoid visiting Greece anyway!
