andberlin said:
(...Or why I can't stand Sydney in summer)
It's 11pm and still pushing close to 30C (85F) outside, not to mention the fact that there is no breeze whatsoever. Gah!
Do you know what I would give for 30C right now? I was born and raised in South Africa - the climate is roughly the same as the climate in Australia, so I have a fairly good idea about what an Australian summer is like. Honestly, you don't know how good you have it.
I moved to Canada almost six years ago and I
still haven't acclimatised to the weather here yet. And I'm not even in the coldest part of Canada! Newfoundland probably has the mildest winter in terms of temperature, once you exclude places like BC/Vancouver out of the picture. Do you know what walking outside in -10C with a windchill factor of -20C is like? Upon exiting your house, your eyes immediately start to stream. You walk out onto the road to reach your bus stop, only to realise that there is black ice on the road. You can't see black ice. So you slip. Then, when you get to the bus stop, you have to expose your hands to the frigid wind to get out your bus pass. Repeat this several times over a month. Your hands become dry, raw and eventually bloody, even with hand cream. Not to mention what happens to your lips! God forbid you forget your handy tube of Chapstick at home.
And that's just day-to-day commuting! Then you have shovelling your driveway to worry about. There is nothing glamorous about it, believe you me. The aforementioned annoyances are amplified ten-fold, because it usually takes between one to two hours to get your driveway shovelled. Then the bloody plough driver goes by and dumps even MORE snow into your driveway. Then you have to get rid of that. And, again, this is all in -20C windchill.
So in short, stop whining, you bloody Aussie.
Go to the beach, play a bit of rugby, enjoy it! I'd give anything to be in your shoes at the moment.