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Ogurisama posted...

Both suck, but I agree.
People say oh its easier to warm yourself up. -35 no matter how many layers you put on you're going to be cold. Yes youll warm up once you get inside, but here thats cause all houses have heating and are insulated for it. Down where it gets to 122f you all mostly have AC in your houses to cool down the house, and the houses are designed for the heat.

-35 is a bit extreme tbh, but in general cold is MUCH easier to deal with than heat. I'm not saying there are not negatives (literally) to it being super cold, but you do have many more ways to compensate for it, and it can be cheaper as well.

You can burn wood etc, to heat a place up, which is much cheaper than AC for instance and body heat itself with good insulation can help a ton (especially with blankets etc.

Now there are certainly more extreme cold temps on this planet than extreme high temps, but the AVERAGE temperature over all on the surface of our planet is 60 degrees F.

If you move an equal distance hot/cold from the average, it becomes MUCH harder to deal with the heat over the cold as you do.

40-80 basically have no negatives, and you can live normally with no AC, heating etc at those temps.

30-40 starts to get a bit cold, but you still usually won't freeze to death even without cover etc.
80-90 can start to become a bit hard to work in, you need more water etc, but it's not gonna kill people either.

20-30 is cold enough that sleeping outside without cover/blankets/sleeping bag, could cause damage, or at least help you become sick. That being said, being inside almost anything will keep you warm enough, and blankets etc are all that you need (Still don't need to actually use heating at this point). I leave my windows open at those temps and still sleep with just a light blanket or sheet.

90-100 can start killing people, AC is getting really important, many have a hard time sleeping at temps in that range (especially if it doesn't cool off much at night), heatstroke happens easier, you need more water, and it starts to get pretty expensive to use AC as well.

10-20 is still not that bad, you do have to worry/deal with pipes possibly freezing, but I have walked around in a t-shit and shorts in that weather before. You can still easily live in a home without heating though you'll probably want to bundle up. you can totally warm a home with a fireplace, burning wood, but if you sleep outside without protection, you will probably get frostburn at least and possibly die. I could probably still sleep outside as long as there was not snow, but even I would start to feel cold especially if I didn't have a sleeping bag or a good blanket.

100-110 is usually the highest range we get while people are still normally doing things. AC is very important, heat stroke is a high risk, water is mandatory. Almost nobody is going to be comfortable outside even for short periods of time. I would not move somewhere that hits this range more than once or twice a year.

0-10, still can do almost everything normally at this point. Heating is more important for most people. I do feel cold in this range, my nose and fingers especially feel kinda numb/burny. Frostburn is def a risk, but you can bundle up and be just fine still. Heating still can be done with just wood, but a heater starts to become more effective. I have lived in a shack made out of hay in the middle of Putney vermont (50 acres of woods back then) with temps this cold or colder, with no AC, and (since it was made out of hay) obviously no fireplace. I was a kid, and I still was fine.

110-120 Yeah, I have no experience with this in my memory, though I did live in AZ for awhile as a kid so probably did have days that hot. It's pretty much the hottest temp we can live in without significant technology/ac etc. I would not want to have to live in such temps , but people have done so, even without technology. Any higher than this though would start to be insane, you would need REALLY good AC, or you would need to move underground (or a combination of both.

So yeah, cold is easier to deal with, even for an average person. For me, it's WAY easier, and I'm actually comfortable about 20-30 degrees lower than the world average temp (60 F). I am only comfortable for about 10 degrees higher then the average world temp, so my range is somewhere around 30-70f for full comfort (no need to wear special clothes, ac, heaters etc).

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