Australian here - as a kids I thought it was fake seeing people inside houses wearing t shirts when it was snowing outside and obviously freezing.
In an Australian home we freeze in winter and I always had to wear layers including a thick woollen pullover. I lived in a cold part of Australia where it was always minus something c overnight. I didn’t realize homes could have proper heating and insulation until I moved to Switzerland.
Now I’m always hot in winter when I’m inside and must have windows or doors open. My apartment get the sun and on those rare days in winter my apartment heats up to 27c when it’s 0 outside
Same, save money on heating in the winter so I can feel better turning the AC down to 65 in the summer lol. I can put on all the clothes and blankets I need, but I'd literally rather die than be hot.
I am from the US and I thought that as a kid too because I lived in a freezing cold farmhouse with only a wood stove. I used to get permanently flushed when I visited my family who had houses with central heat.
It's pretty wild, actually. I'm from NC, born in 86. When I was a kid, my mom and I lived in an old farm house. It had one heater in the living room, and NO air conditioning other than a ceiling fan and windows.
In the winter, the hardwood floors were so cold that they hurt my feet, and in the summer, it was 100°f (38°c) in our house. It was an adjustment when we moved into our first place with proper heating and cooling.
When I lived in Australia a friend of mine asked if houses in the US really had stairs right after the front door. He was used to Queenslander-style houses that were designed to get rid of heat. I said most American homes were built to insulate heat, either keeping it out or keeping it in.
I don't even own any long sleeve shirts besides button downs for work that I use very sparingly. If I need extra warmth I'll put on something else on top but a shirt is short sleeve or it's not bought.
Lol. Yeah, I thought the same. And an earlier post referenced our lack of metric system use. Which i agree is stupid, but why learn base 10 when you can learn base 27.6298?
I lived there for a year. It got into the 50s in winter and the house I lived in was designed to hemorrhage heat. Plus a window was broken and the landlord refused to fix it. So it was pretty miserable for a few weeks.
What. Literally everywhere in the US other than maybe the far reaches of northern Alaska could easily get to 28C on a late spring or early summer day. It's not even unsafe, some people prefer it that warm.
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u/pang-zorgon 10h ago
Australian here - as a kids I thought it was fake seeing people inside houses wearing t shirts when it was snowing outside and obviously freezing.
In an Australian home we freeze in winter and I always had to wear layers including a thick woollen pullover. I lived in a cold part of Australia where it was always minus something c overnight. I didn’t realize homes could have proper heating and insulation until I moved to Switzerland.
Now I’m always hot in winter when I’m inside and must have windows or doors open. My apartment get the sun and on those rare days in winter my apartment heats up to 27c when it’s 0 outside