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[-] Followupquestion@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago

Tell me you live somewhere temperate without telling me where you live. Have you been to much of the US in the winter?

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

I spent 5 years living in Alaska.

[-] Followupquestion@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

You’ve lived in Alaska for multiple winters and you aren’t worried about the problem with exposing small children to extreme cold?

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

You should see how the Finnish treat their babies. Things like frostbite and frostnip don't happen in the few seconds it takes to get from a car to a door. Yes, with small children, those 10 or 20 seconds might turn into 60, but they will be fine.

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

A low temperature in Alaska will affect you MUCH differently than low temperatures in say, BC which is much more humid and cuts into my bones at -1 where in Alaska/Yukon I've handled -34 and I'm mostly struggling to breath.

As long as it's a quick jaunt into a heated facility, it should be fine with some moderate layers.

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These days I live in Washington, not quite as cold as BC but mostly similar. Previously, I have lived in the Northeast of the US and the Northeast of Japan, which are both humid and quite cold and windy in the winter.

I know winter.

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

That's pretty cool :p

[-] IronicDeadPan@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I agree with you and I live in Florida. I'd rather deal with the drive thru for the same reasons you listed.

Also, I won't have to deal with trying to buckle a 2 & 4 year-old out of and back into their car seats, especially when it's raining and 95*F. The 4 year old has ASD and refuses to be helped into the car so they throw a tantrum in the rain, and the 2 year old loses their mind just because.

There are things that people who don't have/want kids can't understand, and it's an argument not worth having.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Understanding those things is why I don't want kids.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Not in US, but it's -18 outside right now, and I had no problem walking to my grandma's home in -25 for 1km. This is not even Yakutia, but US is definetly not Oymyakon.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Temperature is in °C for you imperialists here

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