Imagine the temperature at which you consider it almost too cold for a sweatshirt. The point at which you seriously consider switching to a jacket that is warmer than a sweatshirt, or consider wearing thermals under you sweatshirt, or however you deal with that temperature.
Now imagine that is the temperature at which almost everyone you know tries to keep their house almost all year.
Oh, I got it. And I didn't mean to imply you are crazy, just that it's wacky and interesting to note how different people are in this way.
For me, I feel you can always put on more clothes but if you get too hot, you're just screwed, especially when wearing next to nothing isn't enough to offset the temp.
I used to travel on the Ren Fest circuit and there was one year at a festival in the Dallas area where the whole last week we were there, it was about 100 degrees with 80 to 100% humidity. To me, that's just horribly draining and uncomfortable. It's probably going to be like that much of my time in Hong Kong/China when I go there in late July, that's the main aspect I'm not looking forward to.
just that it's wacky and interesting to note how different people are in this way.Admittedly I am probably more than two standard deviations from the mean. I think most people are in your camp, or pretty close to it. And I suspect it may be that something is wrong with me, like possibly bad circulation. I just don't know how to deal with it. I hate being bundled up all the time, so I don't care for the oft-repeated "you can always put on more clothes". I know you're not trying to offend me, I just hear this so often, and it drives me nuts. I'm just tired of spending most of my life cold and/or bundled up, and possibly especially I am tired of the shit I take for being bundled up when other people don't feel the need. I think most people have a really hard time understanding how big a deal this is to me. But I also don't think it's fair to expect most of the world to accommodate me
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For what it's worth, when I said "you can always put on more clothes" I meant you as in "me and most people"... it certainly does seem that you're pretty far over toward one end of this spectrum.
I am a big believer in addressing your quality of life. You have friends and other life aspects here that are clearly important to you, and MN does have a pretty high quality of life in general terms. But for you, the climate makes living here a trial much of the time, so that has a consistent negative effect on your personal quality of life. Given that, I think it's very healthy for you to consider finding a place to live with a climate that you would enjoy much more of the time.
Oh, hi! Wow, I bet this is pretty close to the last public post I've made, isn't it? I don't know what happened. Oh wait, yes I do - I started getting to know LJ people in real life and getting all paranoid about privacy. Hmm. I should get back to posting publicly more often.
Anyhow ... Nice to know I'm not alone, because it sure feels like I am most of the time. Thanks! :)
Personally I'm fantasizing about moving to Austin, Texas someday to give myself the gift of warmth. I'm in Oregon and really it's not too severe here, it doesn't dip too much below freezing (though I've noticed the winters getting colder). I can't imagine living where you do feeling as I do. Wikipedia says "The average annual temperature of 45.4 °F (7.4 °C) gives the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area the coldest annual mean temperature of any major metropolitan area in the continental United States."
Damn.
I wish you warmth and pocket warmers cause pocket warmers are awesome. :)
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Imagine the temperature at which you consider it almost too cold for a sweatshirt. The point at which you seriously consider switching to a jacket that is warmer than a sweatshirt, or consider wearing thermals under you sweatshirt, or however you deal with that temperature.
Now imagine that is the temperature at which almost everyone you know tries to keep their house almost all year.
This is my life.
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For me, I feel you can always put on more clothes but if you get too hot, you're just screwed, especially when wearing next to nothing isn't enough to offset the temp.
I used to travel on the Ren Fest circuit and there was one year at a festival in the Dallas area where the whole last week we were there, it was about 100 degrees with 80 to 100% humidity. To me, that's just horribly draining and uncomfortable. It's probably going to be like that much of my time in Hong Kong/China when I go there in late July, that's the main aspect I'm not looking forward to.
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I am a big believer in addressing your quality of life. You have friends and other life aspects here that are clearly important to you, and MN does have a pretty high quality of life in general terms. But for you, the climate makes living here a trial much of the time, so that has a consistent negative effect on your personal quality of life. Given that, I think it's very healthy for you to consider finding a place to live with a climate that you would enjoy much more of the time.
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And thanks for understanding. :)
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Anyhow ... Nice to know I'm not alone, because it sure feels like I am most of the time. Thanks! :)
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Personally I'm fantasizing about moving to Austin, Texas someday to give myself the gift of warmth. I'm in Oregon and really it's not too severe here, it doesn't dip too much below freezing (though I've noticed the winters getting colder). I can't imagine living where you do feeling as I do.
Wikipedia says "The average annual temperature of 45.4 °F (7.4 °C) gives the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area the coldest annual mean temperature of any major metropolitan area in the continental United States."
Damn.
I wish you warmth and pocket warmers cause pocket warmers are awesome. :)
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