Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

Thats why the sun sets at 10pm in summer to make up for it

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I wish something would go down at 4pm here.

It would liven office life up and give me something to look forward to.

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

I never said that it was only a UK thing I was just speaking from my own experience. I have never felt like this in my 30 years of life in Adelaide and felt it for the first time in the UK.

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Summer? In the UK? I must of missed it! :rofl::rofl:

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Exactly...everyone's different.

My OH and other Aussie friends had a huge whinging session at the end of winter complaining about how depressing Melbourne weather was...I just couldn't see where they were coming from! Maybe after a few more Melbourne winters it'll get to me.....but I doubt it!

However if you do have a predisposition to SAD then SE Qld is definitely the place to be as winters are generally spectacular there. But for me personally I don't like the year round early darkness.

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

It doesn't matter where you are or what you do, there's always something to moan about. How boring would life be if we got everything we wanted?? We'd probably be moaning about that too!!

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

Didn't you see that I was positive about it, not speechless :confused:
A lot of things make me speechless...

You tell that to an APE :lol:

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

What early darkness ? It's bright at 5am :rofl:

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

If we can't find anything to moan about, we can always moan about the people that moan :lol:

I have enough to moan about with a 13 yr old daughter and her bedroom tidiness, I need nothing else to moan about :ohmy:

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

I honestly couldn't give a sh!t how much daylight there is before 8am...makes no difference to me! :D

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Wow 30 years in Adelaide! You deserve a medal.

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I used to be a late riser, 8am would have been early for me :D

But now, often awake at 5am, getting things done. It is different, and I am beginning to like it, as long as I don't go to bed at midnight !

Re: Does it ever get cold in Oz?
 

Yeah, that! And we haven't even been through a whole Perth winter yet. We arrived here in August (straight from a Canadian summer) and were freezing. Cold tile floors, no central heat, single pane windows. Wind howling, constant rain. Nice.

I'm not looking forward to it. When it gets really hot here (like in the next few days), I remind myself that I'll be freezing by June-July.

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I like the sparkling sunny winter days like in the second pic.

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Also lots of people get up early and go to bed quite early. This week we have been getting up at 5am to go crabbing, we have been fishing at about 5pm until sunset and done lots of stuff in between so by 10:30 we have had a lovely full day and it has only been dark for a few hours.

Having survived 3 WA winters we have built our house with reverse cycle air con. We don't need it in the summer as there is nothing between us and the ocean and very litle between us and the Estuary so we get lovely cooling sea breezes and the occasional cooler easterlies. However, in the winter those lovely breezes turn into bone chilling gale force winds and that's when our air con system will be fully utilised. As others have said you do get many gorgeous, sunny days but the nights generally get really cold and you get periods of heavy rain too.