🇬🇧 Cold or hot?

Cold or hot? Which do you prefer?

There is an illusion that some places are hot all year round. It is an illusion because, for the tourist, it may be true, but for those who live in a place with summer temperatures close to 40° C, 25° C in winter are cold. A Danish tourist would find this winter very hot, but after living there for 2 or 3 years he would find it cold.

Likewise, a person born in a place where it is normally 40° C in the summer and going to visit Denmark will find the summer there too cold, but if she decides to live there, she will get used to those temperatures.

You can, as I did, go through places in between to get used to the cold or the heat, depending on your goal. The Dane who dreams of heat may live in southern Brazil before living in Rio de Janeiro or Recife. The Recife native who dreams of the cold can do the same before relocating to Denmark. The discomfort will perhaps be less (I cannot guarantee because I have never relocated from a very hot place to a very cold one).

Another point, important to note for those who want to live in Brazil, is that the standard in the country is not to have a structure for cold winter. There is the possibility of installing underfloor heating. There are electric heaters for sale in appliance stores. I was told that double glazed windows also exist, but they are not easy to find and finished properties usually have single glazed windows. In the largest construction products stores in Curitiba, Brazil's coldest capital, there is no double-glazed window. So ... you adapt to the cold by force.

Whether you adapt a little at a time or go straight to where you want, the experience is always valid. And it's important that you live your experience instead of being stagnant.

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Nycka, the Nomad