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View Poll Results: What do you prefer?
Cool summers (high below 16 °C/60 °F) 25 60.98%
Hot winters (high above 28 °C/84 °F). 16 39.02%
Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-13-2015, 05:31 AM
 
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Summer average highs below 16 °C

Iceland: 329,100
Petropavlovsk-Kamtchasky: 179,780
Troms, Norway: 161,771
Magallanes, Chile: 155,332
Finnmark, Norway: 75,207
Ushuaia, Argentina: 56,956
Greenland (except Kangerlussuaq): 55,472
Faroe Islands: 49,709
Nunavut (except Baker Lake): 30,034
Shetland Islands: 23,210
Anadyr, Chukotka: 13,045
Stornoway: 9,000
Tiksi, Sacha Republic: 5,063
Ust-Kamchatsk: 4,352
Barrow, Alaska: 4,212
Pevek, Chukotka: 4,162
Nome, Alaska: 3,598
Kotzebue, Alaska: 3,201
Egvekinot, Chukotka: 2,790
Severo-Kurilsk: 2,536
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: 2,174
Provideniya, Chukotka: 1,970
Lavrentiya, Chukotka: 1,459
Beringovsky, Chukotka: 1,401
Lorino, Chukotka: 1,267
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT: 854
Uelen, Chukotka: 720
Neshkan, Chukotka: 704
Dikson, Krasnoyarsk: 676
Point Hope, Alaska: 674
Yakutat, Alaska: 662
Shishmaref, Alaska: 563
Wainwright, Alaska: 556
Rytkuchi, Chukotka: 517
Mys Shmidta, Chukotka: 492
Nuiqsut, Alaska: 402
Nizhneyansk, Sakha Republic: 391
Khatyrka, Chukotka: 377
Kivalina, Alaska: 374
Enmelen, Chukotka: 367
Nunligran, Chukotka: 360
Enurmino, Chukotka: 301
Ayon, Chukotka: 252
Point Lay, Alaska: 247
Uelkal, Chukotka: 243
Kaktovik, Alaska: 239
Atqasuk, Alaska: 233
Yanranay, Chukotka: 217
Billings, Chukotka: 211
Vankarem, Chukotka: 184
Wales, Alaska: 145

Total: 1,187,752

Winter highs above 28 °C and summer highs above 36 °C


Hyderabad, India: 7,749,334
Khartoum, Sudan: 6,527,500
Yangon, Myanmar: 5,998,000
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: 3,400,000
Kano, Nigeria: 2,828,861
Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 1,675,368
N'Djamena, Chad: 1,605,696
Niamey, Niger: 1,302,910
Merida, Mexico: 970,377
Juba, South Sudan: 372,410

Total: 32,430,416

Alright. It seems like humans prefer the heat to the cold, but at the same time, who lives in heat is usually poorer than who lives in the cold.

Cold places are usually more peaceful than hot places.

People tend to built big cities in hot places rather than cold places. The biggest city in the cool summer region is Reykjavik, in Iceland, with about 200,000 inhabitants. Hyderabad, in India, has more than 7,000,000 inhabitants. Of course, Iceland is richer and more developed than India.

What do you think about this? And what do you prefer? Cool summers or hot winters?

I prefer the cool summers than the hot winters.
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Old 07-13-2015, 05:34 AM
 
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9000 more here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stornoway
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Old 07-13-2015, 05:39 AM
 
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Added!
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Old 07-13-2015, 06:30 AM
 
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I prefer the cool summers, especially since many of the cool summer places are beautiful towns in developed, first-world countries like the Nordic countries, which are far more preferable than India or Saudi Arabia.
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Old 07-13-2015, 06:30 AM
 
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Ugh...both are equally horrible. This poll is basically subpolar (Reykjavik) versus extremely hot desert climate like Mecca.
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Old 07-13-2015, 07:01 AM
 
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Thats (below 60F high) is COLD summer, sleeping room temperature (60s F - low 70s F) for avg high is cool/mild summer, working room temperature for avg high is warm summer (mid/high 70s F), low/mid 80s F is very warm summer, bordering hot is upper 80s F (Singapore-like) and 90+ is hot (in terms of avg high)
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Old 07-13-2015, 08:13 AM
 
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Well, Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatsky and many places in Chukotka aren't as cool as the Wikipedia page in reality. So the people who live in places below 16 °C are less.
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Old 07-13-2015, 08:13 AM
 
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It was a hard choice but i ended up picking cool summer mostly because most of the cool summer places are located in the first world whereas more of the hot winters places you have listed are overcrowded and suffer from widespread hygiene issues.
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Old 07-13-2015, 08:17 AM
 
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It was a hard choice but i ended up picking cool summer mostly because most of the cool summer places are located in the first world whereas more of the hot winters places you have listed are overcrowded and suffer from widespread hygiene issues.
But, would you prefer a city with winters above 28 °C and summers above 36 °C if it was a developed city?
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Old 07-13-2015, 08:34 AM
 
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But, would you prefer a city with winters above 28 °C and summers above 36 °C if it was a developed city?
I think i would still slightly prefer the climate with cool summers but it depends, i wouldn't want to live in a place with harsh winters either. Out of the ones you have listed i think that i would prefer to live in a "mild" climate like Reykjavik, Shetland, Stornoway, Ushuaia, ecc. that get a spring-like summer and an average winter.
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