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It's generally known though, here too, that freezing to death is comfortable. Kind of like drowning in the sense that your discomfort builds up untill an almost unbearable level, then suddenly dissipates, and you get very drowsey.

+ alcohol = easy way to die, every now and then someone will open their jacket, sit down in a comfortable deepening in a pile of snow, and get a little bit of shut eye, on their way home from a party
*never wakes again*

in the military, a guy had been found next to his neatly folded clothes, frozen blue (dead, of course)
 
zegh8578 said:
One thing that surprised me was freezing my ass off in Spain, during winter. Cold as hell!
I used to ridicule them for being cold at 10-15 degrees C, but the thing is, our houses in Norway, Finland, etc, are almost self-sustaining in terms of heat. You don't even need heating for many of them, your body heat circulates and isolates, the house is like a thermos.

In Spain, however, houses are designed to allow freshness for unbearable summer heat, so during winter, they withhold NO warmth at all, resulting in occupants constantly cold, I was really surprised - and uncomfortable!
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Yep. I recently read a news story about a Finnish guy living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Said that he has to clean the fungus from the walls every now and then, moisture causes it. No insulation in the walls. There was a burst pipe and the apartment got wet but wasn't dried at all, the locals just said "it'll dry by itself". Fungus all over the walls. Electricity is expensive. Certain stuff like milk, cheese, etc. is expensive or non-existent in the store.
 
That reminds me, I think it was in Russia but umm... it makes me tear up every time, anyway, this mentally disabled guy was sitting in a bus top when it was really and started to freeze to death. However because he wasn't exactly right in the head and because he was frozen stiff he was unable to tell the other people who waited at the stop and left on the buses. They all assumed he was waiting for a bus. He died.

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MutantScalper said:
Yep. I recently read a news story about a Finnish guy living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Said that he has to clean the fungus from the walls every now and then, moisture causes it. No insulation in the walls. There was a burst pipe and the apartment got wet but wasn't dried at all, the locals just said "it'll dry by itself". Fungus all over the walls. Electricity is expensive. Certain stuff like milk, cheese, etc. is expensive or non-existent in the store.
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Fuuuuuuuuck. I'm going to Barcelona this holidays.
 
I prefer the cold to the heat, but what I hate is sudden climate shifts. Body can't even adjust to feeling cold before we get a surprise heat wave after raining for 2 days straight.
 
MutantScalper said:
Yep. I recently read a news story about a Finnish guy living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Said that he has to clean the fungus from the walls every now and then, moisture causes it. No insulation in the walls. There was a burst pipe and the apartment got wet but wasn't dried at all, the locals just said "it'll dry by itself". Fungus all over the walls. Electricity is expensive. Certain stuff like milk, cheese, etc. is expensive or non-existent in the store.
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Odd, I have family in Valencia, and I am always impressed at the stores. Then again, the area has been elevated a lot the past few decades, a lot of high quality shops have moved in.
I guess Barcelona, being much larger at that, has a lot of poor neighborhood marred by bad quality stores
 
zegh8578 said:
One thing that surprised me was freezing my ass off in Spain, during winter. Cold as hell!
I used to ridicule them for being cold at 10-15 degrees C, but the thing is, our houses in Norway, Finland, etc, are almost self-sustaining in terms of heat. You don't even need heating for many of them, your body heat circulates and isolates, the house is like a thermos.

In Spain, however, houses are designed to allow freshness for unbearable summer heat, so during winter, they withhold NO warmth at all, resulting in occupants constantly cold, I was really surprised - and uncomfortable!
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And if the owners/parents are cheap, there isn't air conditioning neither. In a single summer I erased most numbers and letters from the keyboard purely from sweat (and i'm pretty fit) and a new destktop is gonna be needed soon too.

MutantScalper said:
Yep. I recently read a news story about a Finnish guy living and working in Barcelona, Spain. Said that he has to clean the fungus from the walls every now and then, moisture causes it. No insulation in the walls. There was a burst pipe and the apartment got wet but wasn't dried at all, the locals just said "it'll dry by itself". Fungus all over the walls. Electricity is expensive. Certain stuff like milk, cheese, etc. is expensive or non-existent in the store.
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- The goverment sold all rights to distribute gas, power and water to companies in the 70-00s so scam is the rule and not exception :( Same goes for internet too
- Fungus? I call the big one in the corner Bob! And the ones at the window Mus & Go!
- Ummm... Shouldn't he go to a mart for milk and to a butcher stote for the cheese? Never seen stuff scarce and i live 1,5 highway hours away Barcelona
 
Dr Fallout said:
That reminds me, I think it was in Russia but umm... it makes me tear up every time, anyway, this mentally disabled guy was sitting in a bus top when it was really and started to freeze to death. However because he wasn't exactly right in the head and because he was frozen stiff he was unable to tell the other people who waited at the stop and left on the buses. They all assumed he was waiting for a bus. He died.

:cry:

Fuuuuuuuuck. I'm going to Barcelona this holidays.
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Sad about that dude.

I'm sure you'll be ok in Barca. The guy was renting an apartment. I'm sure the hotels/hostels etc. are better.
 
Walpknut said:
Spain is really that bad? No milk in stores?
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Arnust said:
- The goverment sold all rights to distribute gas, power and water to companies in the 70-00s so scam is the rule and not exception :( Same goes for internet too
- Fungus? I call the big one in the corner Bob! And the ones at the window Mus & Go!
- Ummm... Shouldn't he go to a mart for milk and to a butcher stote for the cheese? Never seen stuff scarce and i live 1,5 highway hours away Barcelona
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There is milk and edam cheese in the store but it's either more expensive or they might not have the same type that we have over here in Finland. So yea, they do have some milk/cheese there.
 
MutantScalper said:
There is milk and edam cheese in the store but it's either more expensive or they might not have the same type that we have over here in Finland. So yea, they do have some milk/cheese there.
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My brother's problem was that a lot of the milk was sweetened, and he was really not used to that, and quite OCD about his morning glass of milk
 
I was kind of overwhelmed by all the different types of milk they had in Poland. Even the cow milk had a panthone to choose from.
 
We are one brand away from milk monopoly in Norway :D It was a big deal in the 90s, when we only had a single brand, and they kept choking out any newcomers. Today we have two brands
 
Walpknut said:
I prefer the cold to the heat, but what I hate is sudden climate shifts. Body can't even adjust to feeling cold before we get a surprise heat wave after raining for 2 days straight.
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You know, all the people that want better climates ... never remember what kind of stuff it can bring ...

THis is how I actually picture Colombia and Australia. You guys are really brave.
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The cold has really advantages, that people can't even imagine.
 
Colombia actually has a very diverse climate due to our specially diverse landscape. Cold is actually the common thing where I am living right now, we just get heatwaves at certain times of the year. Hell,I can even leave milk products out of the fridge for days without them getting spoiled.
The city where I was born and raised tho, was an inferno.
 
We have a lot of milk brands in here, but there is one thing every Colombian will tell you, Fuck Parmalat, you ship tainted milk once you are blacklisted forever.
 
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