I’m in Britain and I really hate the eyelashes, fillers and makeup here for young girls sometimes and the intense pressure I see everywhere to get them. Poor girlies.
I’m in Britain and I really hate the eyelashes, fillers and makeup here for young girls sometimes and the intense pressure I see everywhere to get them. Poor girlies.
Australia’s utter lack of understanding that the houses / apartments need insulation and double glazing.
F these glorified tents we live in. I’ve never been SO cold indoors in winter or cooked alive in summer. Electricity and gas bills are sky high because of running AC all summer and heating all winter.
I see your Australian and give you Japan- where this is also true and our winter temp where I live is usually in the single digits if I’m lucky for the high. Summers aren’t nearly as hot- but humid as all get out. Do they have central air and heat there? In the winter I get to bust out the kerosene heaters and hope I don’t suffocate myself on accident
It’s like this for me in Portland Oregon and it literally snows here every year. I have to bundle up indoors all winter
haha definitely true.
I feel you. Same in Japan on the main island
Definitely agree with you on this one . Came to Australia from the UK 13 years ago . Every place we have rented ( can’t afford to buy at the insane prices ) has been freezing cold in winter and like a sauna in summer. The first place didn’t have any form of heating at all and I remember desperately trying to keep the large open- plan living area warm with a couple of freestanding electric heaters . It was freezing and the ceiling to floor single paned windows all around the house let out any heat we managed to conserve and let in so much heat in the summer the place got like an oven. The houses since haven’t been much better although at least we do have A/C in the living area of our current place . It still gets like an oven / freezing in the ready of the house though… Australia is so far behind the times when it comes to insulation and double glazing yet the house prices are crazy expensive for poor quality. I’ve never been as cold / hot indoors as I have since moving here . Went to visit my son who lives in Norway in November one year and I could walk around his house in a t-shirt it was that well insulated and triple glazed .
Yesss as an Aussie in Europe ppl keep asking me if im warm enough at home in the winter and im like bruh it’s actually way worse in australia, this is fuckin toasty
Totally depends where in Europe tbh. I lived in Cyprus for a few years, and how bitterly cold it was in winter always shocks people. I’ve never been as cold in my life as I was mid January in Cyprus even at home - there’s zero central heating and everyone always said I must be exaggerating how cold it got but when it’s warmer outside the house than inside and there’s snow on the ground, it’s not a fun time at all.
And in the summer, running the AC left you with a €600 electric bill (before the current energy crisis) in a country where €1000 a month is a decent salary, so there’s only about 4 months a year it’s even close to comfortable at home. Going to work in a job I hated where homophobic abuse was common even from management as a gay woman was often a relief just because it was air conditioned in summer and heated in winter by electric heaters.
Bloody hell 😱 Cyprus eh? That’s rubbish. Sounds like you’ve escaped though? And moved to somewhere nicer?
We’re in the UK and about to emigrate to Mauritius. I did have Portugal on my list for a while. But I’ve decided that the whole of Europe is a bad idea and we’re going to stay out of it.
Portuguese houses have the same construction; total lack of insulation and central heating. Yet in the north it can get fairly chilly in winter! It even snows on higher ground … And it’s humid all year round so massive problems with mold. After looking at the sad state of house construction and the multitude of statues of notable ex-slavers/colonisers in the public squares 🙄, I decided against.
Yes I get this same feeling but I live in Louisiana US and I feel like the apartments here are the same as the garden shed I had in the Uk. It’s plastic windows and gaps around all the doors and windows. It’s crazy how bad the housing is in US. I had no idea before I moved here (moved here from Germany but I am British)
And every time hurricane comes they all are shocked that poorly constructed homes are ruined like a play card house and would take forever to hear from insurance company to move their arses to file the claim. My neighbors got half of their house destroyed by an oak tree during Sally and it took them 1.5 years to restore that side of the house and move back in. Big part of it was insurance company dragging their feet to proceed the claim ( they had to conduct few inspections to make sure it was indeed a hurricane that impacted that ). But God forbid to miss one payment, they will punish you immediately.
Ah, I thought this was just New Zealand
South Africa is like that as well. Coming from Europe I’ve never been that cold for that long in my life. In winter you are constantly cold wherever you go, except for shopping malls and some fancy offices.
As an Aussie who moved to the US, I have gotten so soft over internal temperature. Having it 21C/71F year round. I can’t imagine going back to the wild swings of trying to sleep in Australia when it’s 10C or 30C indoors.
The homes are not insulated? I remember feeling cold during the winter/ rainy months and had a space heater… could never understand because it’s so much colder where I’m from.
Nope. Not ceiling, walls, floors and single pane windows.