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people living alone, people living in tenements with cheap landlords, homeless people on the streets. The City and State provides special services for all of these people, IF they know enough to take advantage of it.
It is all just common sense on how to protect yourself from the cold. By that I also don't mean HIBERNATING in your house with the heat blasting during the winter months either. Millions of people spend their entire lives in cold weather climates and don't die from the cold.
I have had alligators in the lake by my house on the golf course. Do you think I would go over and try to PET IT? I stay as far away as I possibly can. COMMON SENSE.
Would I decide to take a nice long nap on the beach when the heat index is over 100 degrees? No way. COMMON SENSE.
I lived through most my middle and high school years without heat or sparsely using the heat in my home in the winters in Newark, NJ.
If i had enough blankets and i dressed accordingly I would be Fine. I got colds just as commonly as anyone else would in the north would with heat.
And having no Heat in my home came along with NO AC too.. No AC was more unbearable... you can't sleep, or get cooled as easy as you can get warm in the cold.
Many people go through this if they don't have a whole lot of money.
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I lived through most my middle and high school years without heat or sparsely using the heat in my home in the winters in Newark, NJ.
If i had enough blankets and i dressed accordingly I would be Fine. I got colds just as commonly as anyone else would in the north would with heat.
And having no Heat in my home came along with NO AC too.. No AC was more unbearable... you can't sleep, or get cooled as easy as you can get warm in the cold.
Many people go through this if they don't have a whole lot of money.
Exactly. People in the projects barely get enough heat. My students (in a poor area of the Bronx) tell me they put on jackets in their apartments. There's only so much they can do when it's hot and there aren't any community pools around and can only take off so many clothes.
I lived through most my middle and high school years without heat or sparsely using the heat in my home in the winters in Newark, NJ.
If i had enough blankets and i dressed accordingly I would be Fine. I got colds just as commonly as anyone else would in the north would with heat.
And having no Heat in my home came along with NO AC too.. No AC was more unbearable... you can't sleep, or get cooled as easy as you can get warm in the cold.
Many people go through this if they don't have a whole lot of money.
I have to agree with you on this. I would rather sleep in cold, thats why I leave my door open in the winter, (without fear of hypothermia) and the AC on in summer. But there are people down hear without AC that get by just fine.
I didn't even have to think for a millisecond on this one. New York, easily. I've spent months in South Florida at a time, and it didn't appeal to me at all. I couldn't go to NYC often enough, though.
I would love to learn to snowboard one day. How good in Ney york for that?
snow boarding is pretty good in new york lots of ski resorts.
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