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Also, one thing I prefer about Europe in general is that spring is an actual season whereas in many places in the US it seems like it's constantly alternating between summer weather and winter weather. I want my mild weather for half of the year, please.
Actually in Texas, spring is a very mild and stable season. Starting in early March to about mid May, the weather is very nice and very little temperature jumps. This is opposed to the Northeast, where it could be 70 one day and 30 and snowing the next. Also, California is very stable in the late spring.
In the areas where most Australians live, no. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane are very stable climates and much better than any area in the US. For instance, Brisbane has a subtropical climate that would rival Miami but it has no intrusions of freezing weather that Miami can experience. Sydney and Melbourne have extremely mild oceanic climates and Perth has a classic Mediterranean climate that is always predictable and they actually get almost monsoonal type storms during their winter due to the Antarctic spinning off very powerful systems. In the summer they are bone dry so a nice classic Mediterranean. Then Cairns and Darwin exhibit classical wet and dry tropical to a T. Predictable and expected.
Great portions of Australia are desert but hardly anyone lives there. But even their desert cities (Alice Springs) are not as extreme as places like Needles, CA or Yuma, AZ for instance.
I suspect Australia will continue getting people as they have plenty of land. Even if you discount the desert areas, their population density is low and could stand a lot more people, especially in the northern tropical areas. There's no reason why Darwin shouldn't be a big gateway to Asia.
In the areas where most Australians live, no. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane are very stable climates and much better than any area in the US. For instance, Brisbane has a subtropical climate that would rival Miami but it has no intrusions of freezing weather that Miami can experience. Sydney and Melbourne have extremely mild oceanic climates and Perth has a classic Mediterranean climate that is always predictable and they actually get almost monsoonal type storms during their winter due to the Antarctic spinning off very powerful systems. In the summer they are bone dry so a nice classic Mediterranean. Then Cairns and Darwin exhibit classical wet and dry tropical to a T. Predictable and expected.
Great portions of Australia are desert but hardly anyone lives there. But even their desert (Alice Springs) are not as extreme as places like Needles, CA or Yuma, AZ for instance.
I suspect Australia will continue getting people as they have plenty of land. Even if you discount the desert areas, their population density is low and could stand a lot more people, especially in the northern tropical areas. There's no reason why Darwin shouldn't be a big gateway to Asia.
Yet you dislike Asia for having the same features?
In the areas where most Australians live, no. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane are very stable climates and much better than any area in the US. For instance, Brisbane has a subtropical climate that would rival Miami but it has no intrusions of freezing weather that Miami can experience. Sydney and Melbourne have extremely mild oceanic climates and Perth has a classic Mediterranean climate that is always predictable and they actually get almost monsoonal type storms during their winter due to the Antarctic spinning off very powerful systems. In the summer they are bone dry so a nice classic Mediterranean. Then Cairns and Darwin exhibit classical wet and dry tropical to a T. Predictable and expected.
Great portions of Australia are desert but hardly anyone lives there. But even their desert cities (Alice Springs) are not as extreme as places like Needles, CA or Yuma, AZ for instance.
I suspect Australia will continue getting people as they have plenty of land. Even if you discount the desert areas, their population density is low and could stand a lot more people, especially in the northern tropical areas. There's no reason why Darwin shouldn't be a big gateway to Asia.
Australia is extreme too just in an opposite way to the US with extreme summer temperature variation vs winter temperature variation. Compare the record highs of Hobart and Vancouver which have similar summer temp averages and their record heat. Hobart is on an island surrounded by cold ocean too.
Australia is extreme too just in an opposite way to the US with extreme summer temperature variation vs winter temperature variation. Compare the record highs of Hobart and Vancouver which have similar summer temp averages and their record heat. Hobart is on an island surrounded by cold ocean too.
I find mild weather with extreme heat more "exciting" than mild weather with extreme cold. When I was in the Bay Area the mild weather was nice but when we got those late summer/fall heatwaves it was so exciting and changed it up a bit. Melbourne is a bit like that, mild almost all the time then a heatwave hits out of the blue for a day or two then back to maritime climate. Makes for some nice beach days now and then.
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