If You're from a Foreign Country, What do you Think of America? (public school, places to live)
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And we got snow the other day in east Texas. But neither the snow nor your 90F are the norm. Funny you are as well!
Like I said, I'm glad you like the climate in Finland. I'd hate for you to be unhappy where you live! But considering that I didn't even particularly care for the climate and average temps in Germany (as much as I liked many things about that country), I'm pretty sure that Finland would be, overall, too cold and snowy for my personal tastes, even if it DID reach 90F twice in a year.
I DON'T LIKE IT! That was my point. It's too damn cold here. Ok, I like snow, but not 3 months of snow and 2 months of rain, cold and 'practically winter'. 2 months would be sufficient for winter. Ok, Texas is maybe a bit over the top, 20 days above 90F and 3 months around 80F would be sufficient.
And yeah, like "wow, first warm day of spring, it's 65F in April". Shoot me now.
I DON'T LIKE IT! That was my point. It's too damn cold here. Ok, I like snow, but not 3 months of snow and 2 months of rain, cold and 'practically winter'. 2 months would be sufficient for winter. Ok, Texas is maybe a bit over the top, 20 days above 90F and 3 months around 80F would be sufficient.
And yeah, like "wow, first warm day of spring, it's 65F in April". Shoot me now.
Gotcha.
Texas is a bit extreme, if you're not used to warm or hot weather. I had some friends visit from Michigan - actually we went to the beach in Alabama but it's about the same thing. Anyway, they were sick with heat exhaustion within four hours and spent the next three days laying in the hotel room in the dark with the AC on full blast and cool towels draped over their sunburn! I felt so sorry for them.
I think it's good and hot here, and then I go south to New Orleans, LA in the summer and my GOSH, it's so hot and humid down there, I can hardly stand it!
But my husband does a lot of work up in Pennsylvania - in fact, he was there just the other day and he called me and said, "What's the temperature there?" I said, "Oh my gosh, it's so cold! It's 34F here!" and he said, "Poor baby. It's 16F here. Shut up!"
I have a yearly ritual that I've kept up since high school. Usually, our first warm day is some time in February. Now - that doesn't mean it STAYS warm - but we usually have a warm spell in February, just to tease us about spring. I put on my shorts and a strappy blouse and drag my lawn chair out into the pale sunlight and sit out in it till I get too cold! It gets me good and ready for "real" spring a few weeks later!
Texas is a bit extreme, if you're not used to warm or hot weather. I had some friends visit from Michigan - actually we went to the beach in Alabama but it's about the same thing. Anyway, they were sick with heat exhaustion within four hours and spent the next three days laying in the hotel room in the dark with the AC on full blast and cool towels draped over their sunburn! I felt so sorry for them.
I think it's good and hot here, and then I go south to New Orleans, LA in the summer and my GOSH, it's so hot and humid down there, I can hardly stand it!
But my husband does a lot of work up in Pennsylvania - in fact, he was there just the other day and he called me and said, "What's the temperature there?" I said, "Oh my gosh, it's so cold! It's 34F here!" and he said, "Poor baby. It's 16F here. Shut up!"
I have a yearly ritual that I've kept up since high school. Usually, our first warm day is some time in February. Now - that doesn't mean it STAYS warm - but we usually have a warm spell in February, just to tease us about spring. I put on my shorts and a strappy blouse and drag my lawn chair out into the pale sunlight and sit out in it till I get too cold! It gets me good and ready for "real" spring a few weeks later!
I'm not bothered by hot weather until around 95F. But I prefer more like 77-80, much better for outdoor activities. And the sun is weaker here, so even when it's "hot", it's not that scorching, and as I'm on the coast, there's always the gentle breeze from the sea. Of course, now the breeze is terrible when it occurs.
Neither do I like extreme cold, but we rarely get that here. I'm cold-hardy to around 14F, but luckily these occur during the night when I'm not out anyway, afternoon conditions are usually around 28, and that is proper good winter weather.
I have a yearly ritual that I've kept up since high school. Usually, our first warm day is some time in February. Now - that doesn't mean it STAYS warm - but we usually have a warm spell in February, just to tease us about spring. I put on my shorts and a strappy blouse and drag my lawn chair out into the pale sunlight and sit out in it till I get too cold! It gets me good and ready for "real" spring a few weeks later!
And how warm is this warm does have to be for you to call it a warm spell?
I'm not bothered by hot weather until around 95F. But I prefer more like 77-80, much better for outdoor activities. And the sun is weaker here, so even when it's "hot", it's not that scorching, and as I'm on the coast, there's always the gentle breeze from the sea. Of course, now the breeze is terrible when it occurs.
Neither do I like extreme cold, but we rarely get that here. I'm cold-hardy to around 14F, but luckily these occur during the night when I'm not out anyway, afternoon conditions are usually around 28, and that is proper good winter weather.
You get the point. No wonder my dad use to say "November barely qualifies in the top 13 months of the year".
Believe it or not, those look like the highs we had last week and even over this weekend here in east Texas.
But of course, we were all freaking out and running to the store to stock up on "essentials" and digging out our long johns and thermal underwear and wearing two pairs of socks and huddling around our gas logs in the fireplace wondering why the room wasn't really heating up!
Right now, though, it's 60F and sunny - more normal for this time of year.
But of course, we were all freaking out and running to the store to stock up on "essentials" and digging out our long johns and thermal underwear and wearing two pairs of socks and huddling around our gas logs in the fireplace wondering why the room wasn't really heating up!
Yeah, I've heard. Funny.
But wait until we get our first blizzard here and it will be snow chaos with huge pileups, we are not immune to coping with extreme weather.
while there are some pretty cool things about the US, there is also a side that depresses me....
you know, when you're sitting home wondering what to do and then you get in your car and go somewhere (most likely a shopping mall or some big store) and you go in and people look fat, badly dressed, everyone is wearing shorts, sandals, baseball caps, everyone looks unclean, unkept), then you get back to your vehicle because you cannot just walk places in most of the US and then you sit home (it makes me wanna shoot myself)
Sounds like it's time for you to move. There are cities and neighbourhoods that exist where you can have quite a different lifestyle than the suburban hell you are describing.
I DON'T LIKE IT! That was my point. It's too damn cold here. Ok, I like snow, but not 3 months of snow and 2 months of rain, cold and 'practically winter'. 2 months would be sufficient for winter. Ok, Texas is maybe a bit over the top, 20 days above 90F and 3 months around 80F would be sufficient.
And yeah, like "wow, first warm day of spring, it's 65F in April". Shoot me now.
I like snow but i hate driving in it... so stressful.
you could live better if you could do better to others.
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