🇬🇧 How to move to somewhere with different culture and climate

Today we’re going to talk about how to adapt to different climates and cultures. If you are interested in this type of tip, use the button on the sidebar (visible in web mode) to buy me a coffee and help me keep doing it.

Fortunately I was born in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions and that culture changes from one region to another and even from one city to another. I have not yet moved to another country, but I have no problems with climatic and cultural differences precisely because I took advantage of the options to adapt to this before leaving Brazil.

I lived in 4 cities and 3 states with different characteristics in my country and I have already said something about each of them in several previous texts.

I will comment on climate differences first.

In the city where I was born it is rare to rain and when it rains it gets stuffy. As a bonus, if it rains on a Saturday night, very few people will go out to party or to a bar. And usually Saturday is the day to go out. On the other days the movement in the bars is much less and there are practically no parties. In winter, at 23°C everyone is in a wool or leather coat. That’s because summer temperatures are usually close to 40°C.

I went to the second city and there it was cooler and it rained a little more. Only once did I get 2 degrees at night in winter. My youngest brother was there at the time and when he saw on TV, after a very cold night, that the next day would be 2 degrees he took the first bus back to my hometown.

On the 3rd city the winter was colder as a whole, but I don't remember getting negative temperatures. On the other hand, the summer seemed warmer than in the previous city and was more uncomfortable than in my hometown because it felt like we were sticking together. As if we were constantly sweating. In my hometown there was no such feeling, despite the high summer temperatures.

And then I arrived in the 4th city, in late spring, and the summer is much cooler, and the winter a little colder than the previous city. But from time to time the weather breaks out and it gets hot in the middle of winter, which is horrible. The normal summer time temperatures here is around 20°C, if it goes beyond 24°C it seems that we are in hell. And it's no use being born in a hot place like hell because I got used to the cold. I don't like the bipolarity of the city to be hot, cold, sunny and rainy all on the same day, but I like the cold. And when it comes to hellish temperatures it rains! And when it rains, it gets cold. Which is exactly the opposite of where I was born, because here it rains a lot. And as it rains a lot, we get used to not giving up the club or doing anything that we want just because it is raining. I just don't recommend going for a run in the park on a rainy day. And if you need to get out of the car on a rainy day, you will pay your sins billions of times, because the traffic here is normally slow, because when the traffic light opens (green light), the drivers keep filing their nails and take time to get the car out of place. And in the rain it gets even slower. In my hometown, a second before the traffic light opens the cars are already honking their horns to start. I worked at the center and once my Portuguese teacher went to the store and stayed just a few minutes to buy some things and at the end she commented to me that she didn't know how I could handle it, that in a few minutes she was dying to leave because of the  horns on the street and I there all day must suffer a lot. But I think the slowness of the people here is worse. Once, coming back from a shopping mall on business, I came by taxi because it was raining a lot when I left, and the rain thinned on the way, and with 3 blocks to get home I told the taxi driver that I was going to get off. I paid for the ride and came the rest on foot. And I arrived at the corner of the house before the taxi driver who remained stuck in traffic.

So, my tip if you want to have a nomadic lifestyle is to move from a hot city or country to a slightly colder one and then to another one even colder and so on and vice versa, avoiding leaving a tropical heat for a  polar cold or leaving a polar cold to a place of tropical heat. If you prefer the extreme jump mode, tell me the result. It is always good to know different experiences.

Regarding cultural differences, each of the 4 cities had very different profiles, to the point that on the 3rd I spent a year going out alone due to a total lack of company, for being a very closed people, and even in college I didn't make great friends that worked outside  the classroom, although there was a fixed group for group work. But when I found people with a profile similar to mine, I was never alone again. And this ease of going out alone came from experiences in the second city. And it helps a lot. I don't stay at home because of a lack of company. A few days ago I saw a reminder on Facebook that it was ten years ago that I went to a Sonata Arctica concert in São Paulo. Alone. And it was great! I had already gone to many other shows alone. I had also traveled other times alone for concerts. This was the first in São Paulo. Anyway, what helped me the most was moving without thinking about going back to where I came from, and the ability to have fun alone. If you look deeply, there is much more. But the many more are characteristics of mine, and these two things are things that anyone can decide and develop and will help immensely.

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Nycka, the Nomad