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Unless you suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) caused by days, if not weeks, of dull, grey skies.

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Also caused by short days, so its a factor in Northern Canada, but in the chunk of Ontario where a large part of the population lives, the days are not only sunnier than the UK, but longer too. Where are we? about the same level as Nice or Rome or something?

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Yup ... Calgary lines up with London ... so for Scots, the winter days are longer ... plus it's so sunny :D

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Yep, I definitely have zero tolerance of rain. West coast Scotland can be really depressing just because it hardly seems to stop raining! I hate it. I would much rather be in the middle of a snowstorm in -20/-30 than +10 in the rain in Glasgow!!!

Rain seems to seep into your bones somehow no matter what you wear, but the snowy cold kind of burns any exposed skin on the outside. You soon defrost. I just make sure I am completely covered!

Chris

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Hi Sue

It really isn't that bad as long as you dress for it. I was worried about the winter/cold etc. as I really feel the cold. Our house is so warm, Tom goes around in shorts and t-shirt quite alot!

This is our first Canadian winter and so far so good! We've had a few snow storms and temps as low as -30 but it hasn't bothered us as we've dressed appropriately and tried to have as much fun in the snow as we can.

Chris

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Hi everyone,

We've yet to arrive in Canada but I have to agree with what someone else said on here about the Brits. not caring how cold it is as long as it is sunny (I think it was Glaswegian). That's me I'm afraid :D I hate the overcast, dull, wet, manky, depressing, hair frizzing, grey, miserable weather we get in the west country. We didn't even have a summer last year, not even one barb-que! :rolleyes: When we were in Canada it was sunny every single day for the 3 weeks we were there. I expect we were lucky with the weather though.

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Sounds like you were! either that or you werent here last year. We still BBQd of course, but summer never happened. My family had one beach day, and even in August it was too cold to swim in Lake Ontario, which weve done every other year with no problem. Hopefully this coming summer will be back to normal, the winter certainly is...snowing again, but not like out East!

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Hey you guys you should be quoting MikeUK not me I've only just woken up and read this thread.

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give me blue, blue sky and -44 anyday over a windy,rainy overcast day in england.....if i ever feel an incline to moaning about the cold i think about england and a smile appears across my face.....
no longer do i have to have wait for the water to heat up to have a boiling hot water bath in order to feel warm!!!

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I guess none of you RAH!..RAH! ...RAH!....gimmie the -30 guys work in the cold?........anyway to answer your question the cold winters are ok the first few years then you start tollerating them for another few then after 10 or 12 they start getting you down and after 20 of them you just hope nobody buys you a rope for christmas.......I would rather drive an ice pick through my eye than have 1 more winter over here.....this is my last for sure

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If you substitute "grey, wet damp and miserable" for "cold" you could b talking about the UK.

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Sorry, my fault for getting them mixed up.....but it comes down to the same conclusion...McGrouch is not only getting older but soft as well...... :D

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what do you do for a job?

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Retired now - but doing part time snow shifting for the next few months. In the UK I was service manager for an eletronic equipment pre-press supply company - why?

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Has chip on shoulder about working outside. guess he has a point, but most dont have to worry about that.