via @lethalwizard
I have it on good authority from multiple Brits that they find Australian winters, which rarely dip below freezing, worse than winters in the UK.
I have also spoken to Australians who regularly face 40+ summers at home that British summers are worse. Outdoors it's fine, they say, but sooner or later you have to go inside to sleep and the problem is, their insulation won't let the heat back out...
^Exactly. I have a friend from Belarus who wears far fewer layers in -10C (14F) at home than 5C (41F) in Scotland because Scotland has wet wind chill and that cuts through to your bones in a way that dry still cold doesn't.
And I just came from a week of hiking in 28C (82.4F) in Spain and handled that fine but 23C (73.4F) in Scotland and I am dead and do not want to walk anywhere.
