Wanting to Make the move
May 25th 2012 | 7:59 am
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
I don't mind warmth, humidity at reasonable level, 60-70% and up to about 27 is OK, its the racing off to work, wearing proper work gear, suits and stuff, that gets me - and I really loathe both very high humidity and very low - drops below 35% and like Moneypenny said earlier I can feel the moisture being sucked out of me - very odd and it has to be experienced to understand it.
I'll never forget when I worked in Adelaide coming out of the hospital and turning to walk to my car. The hot winds coming down from the north between the buildings felt just like the blast of hot air you get when you open your oven door.
There's a kind of joke here in Canada about -40 not being cold on the prairies because it's "a dry cold". It's the same as the heat. +40 in Adelaide or Perth is like sitting in the middle of the Gobi desert. Hot, dry and uncomfortable
There's a kind of joke here in Canada about -40 not being cold on the prairies because it's "a dry cold". It's the same as the heat. +40 in Adelaide or Perth is like sitting in the middle of the Gobi desert. Hot, dry and uncomfortable
Jul 30th 2012 | 8:46 am
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
ive found out since this that the heat now cripples me, with my epilepsy, its a relatively new thing, but looks like i cannot move to somewhere with the heat of an oven 
Jul 30th 2012 | 10:30 am
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
If this is your only reason then you are making an ill-informed judgement. Australia can (and will) be very hot for a few weeks in the summer. Here in SA usually it's something like 15 to 20 days across the whole summer when the temperature rises above 35, which is the only time the "oven" thing starts to happen. Here was 5 degrees last night and it's nine degrees now.
Jul 30th 2012 | 12:07 pm
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
If this is your only reason then you are making an ill-informed judgement. Australia can (and will) be very hot for a few weeks in the summer. Here in SA usually it's something like 15 to 20 days across the whole summer when the temperature rises above 35, which is the only time the "oven" thing starts to happen. Here was 5 degrees last night and it's nine degrees now.
Jul 30th 2012 | 2:01 pm
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
The only 'oven' heat they get in Tassie is in ovens. 
I'm interested as to why high temperatures affect Epilepsy though, never heard that before. Do you have a link I can check out?
I'm interested as to why high temperatures affect Epilepsy though, never heard that before. Do you have a link I can check out?
Jul 30th 2012 | 7:33 pm
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Re: Wanting to Make the move
However, when we went back to the UK last September for a holiday, right in the middle of the 'Indian Summer', I thought I was dying! Nowhere had aircon, even in most of the cheaparse hotels we stayed in there was no aircon, just heating! So uncivilised
