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A simple question about preferences today.
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Years ago, in my younger pre-menopausal days, I’m sure I would have said 100 degrees. We lived down south where summer lasted 8 months and I was breaking out the bikini for sunbathing in February.
Those days are long gone (as are my bikinis) and now? I’ll take the crisp cold 0 temps of winter over a sweltering sauna all day long. I can put on extra clothes to stay warm, but can’t strip down far enough to cool off in that suffocating high heat.
I’m sure I’m the outlier here, but does anyone else prefer the cold?
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River's world..... 
100% prefer the cold (lifelong Vermonter). 64 degrees and sunny all year round would be perfect!
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(Most of my life Mainer) Totally agree!
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Nope, but I’m a swimmer. You can always jump in a pool if it’s too hot.
I’m so so over this particular winter! 🥶
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It’s snowing as I write, so we’re not done with it yet.
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I prefer the cold as well. Growing up in a part of Texas where the summers are dry and the heat and can reach 112 degrees, I’d rather stay cool. I’d much rather endure the cold winter, all be it a winter where it rarely gets below 20 degrees. But cold is much better than sweltering hot, especially as you said, suffering menopausal symptoms. Even though I haven’t had a hot flash in years, I’d rather be cold than baking hot.
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Same.
I get cranky when overheated.
And no one wants that.
😉
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I’ll take the cold, preferably without snow or ice. I HATE snow and ice.
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I like snow but hate ice as well.
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100 degrees in a heartbeat! As a lifelong Phoenician, I’ve never even experienced 0 degrees lol.
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Oh, you should.
It’s delightfully brisk!
🥶
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I definitely prefer the colder weather – especially in humid climates. 100 isn’t too bad in the desert but anything above 75 in a place like NYC is miserable.
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Humidity saps me. I’m useless…
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I’ll take 0 hands-down. Judging by the comments here, you’re not the outlier…Esoterica is!
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I have to say, that surprises me…
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ME! ZERO DEGREES ANY DAY! For the exact same reason.
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Zero over 100.
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Oh no, nothing in this world worse than being cold!
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Except being hot…
😉
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😂
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They both suck. I’d rather 70° no humidity
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Ha. Same. 😀
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I can’t deal with the cold that well. It really hurts my hip. I like heat. Sometimes it gets too hot but the fall is nice here. I grew up in the Catskill Mountains and we shoveled snow, went skiing which I loved but unless I can fix my hip, that is out of the scenario. Korea was also very cold for the 3 years I was there. I like Florida and West Virginia, both of these areas the weather felt right for me.
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The damp cold makes my knee ache but I’m completely miserable in any temperature above 75.
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You have a few degrees on my wife. She starts getting anxious when it goes about 72. I don’t know about this – bunnies, opossums and now the thermometer.
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Tbh… I prefer the mid 60’s.
I may need to reexamine my family tree and see if we’re distantly related.
😉
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I spent 90 days on the Ross Ice Shelf near Mt. Erebus in the Arctic, where the daily temperature rarely got above -40 (F). I told myself when I retired, I would NEVER live in a place that spent months in the frozen zone…..so, 100* it is
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Understandable.
I had a friend who was stationed at McMurdo. He moved to a warmer climate as soon as he was able too.
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I have always preferred cold to hot, and all my life people have told me I was weird. It’s nice to know I’m not alone.
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