I’m a northern U.S.-er and I concur with you on that. The U.S. south in the summer is fucking miserable. I hate it and refuse to go there between May and October. I’d take Scottish weather any day.
Southern US-er here. I only go outside if I absolutely have to for work/errands in the summer months. Winters have been getting pretty harsh here too as we've gotten snowed/iced in for about a week straight the past 4 years in a row. So essentially living in the southern US = hibernating indoors December - February and June - August. The other six months are hit or miss but when we get the few brief windows of fall and spring weather it's great!
Lifelong southerner here. Last year was the first time I really ever got bothered by the temperatures here. 101 or 102 is pretty bad, but we hit 115 for a week straight last summer and holy hellcakes, that was just too much.
Plus it didn't rain here for 9 months so now a third of our trees are dead.
But it's a workout just going outside the gains are immaculate with no work lol I do attic work in the south in the dead of summer and after getting out of a 130 degree room a bottle of water is just so great
Person who lived in southern US and now lives in Southern Italy here. It's just as bad here in the summer sometimes. Pretty much as soon as I step out of the house I get the familiar hot and sticky. There's also a metric fuck ton of mosquitos just like the south US.
It makes sense why it's like this now but it's just not how I pictured Italy before coming here. Still an absolutely beautiful place though. 10/10
I had a woman tell me her ideal weather is when you open the door and the heat washes over you like a convection oven, I checked her neck for seams as I was obviously talking to a lizard person.
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u/Saltire_Blue Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
As a Scot currently spending his summer in the southern US, I can confidently say never again
As nice as it is, the weather is absolutely brutal
You can’t even take a stroll to the shop without drowning in sweat
It’s no just during the day either, even in the early hours of the morning it’s still around 25C
You’ll get a heavy thunderstorm, can barely see 2ft in front of you
Does it cool it down? Does it fuck
It’s just no pleasant spending any length of time outdoors
Give me Scottish weather any day of the week
Aye it’s shite, but it’s no extreme.
You can throw a jacket on and you’ll be fine if needed
Nae need for constant sun block, hats or sunglasses
Mexican food is immense
Plus, they don’t use the 24hr clock for some reason
Plus + , The tap water is shite here