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[Upgrayedd]

Wanna take a guess at what time the sun would rise if that was the case?

oh noes! australians cant handle darkness at 8am! woe is us ey? Still an hour earlier then a few euro countries during the winter.

 

[RU486]

Perth best weather on the planet:

Enjoy your weather

 

[Cruyff14]

Perth best weather on the planet:

View attachment 33697View attachment 33698 Enjoy your weather

I hope you have the same sentiments when you get a summer of 40C practically every day.

 

[The Passenger]

judging a city by it's weather is one of the ultimate follies imo. if i had to list my favourite cities in the world i would go with melbourne, cairns, wellington, queenstown, dublin, edinburgh, brussels and riga in no particular order - all of which have vastly different climates.

a place with good people, good culture, things to do during the day, good nightlife and good variety of each will always overcome any climate barriers thrown at it.

no amount of perfect weather can help a place if it doesn't have at least those five things.

 

[Caesar]

Weather is a dealbreaker for a lot of people though. I can put up with a city lacking a lot of things, but if the climate is no good then none of the rest matters.

Melbourne is probably my favourite city in Australia to visit, but after two successive bitter, rainy winters of going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark I was just about ready to top myself. Couldn't get out of there quick enough.

 

[neroblack]

oh noes! australians cant handle darkness at 8am! woe is us ey? Still an hour earlier then a few euro countries during the winter.

We get it, you like to sleep in.

You don't understand the point of daylight savings, do you?

 

[Cruyff14]

Weather is a dealbreaker for a lot of people though. I can put up with a city lacking a lot of things, but if the climate is no good then none of the rest matters.

Melbourne is probably my favourite city in Australia to visit, but after two successive bitter, rainy winters of going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark I was just about ready to top myself. Couldn't get out of there quick enough.

What did you expect? It's ****ing winter mate, harden up!

 

[BALKAN]

I hope you have the same sentiments when you get a summer of 40C practically every day.

Perth summers are shithouse, but the rest of the year the weather is generally beautiful. Much nicer than Melby at least.

 

[Cruyff14]

We get it, you like to sleep in.

You don't understand the point of daylight savings, do you?

He's obviously too worried about his curtains fading.

 

[nicky]

Melbourne winters are very hard to deal with. This year i made the decision that for as long as i live here i'll need to break up winter with a sunny holiday.

 

[The Passenger]

Weather is a dealbreaker for a lot of people though.

true, but i have always found it a tad strange the preoccupation with weather. maybe my nonchalance-ness towards weather is the strange one though?

the only climate attribute that has ever got to me in a place i lived was the lack of sunlight during winter in dublin. cold was no bother, wind no bother, drizzle no bother. only about 6 hours of sunlight a day however got to me a bit. pushed through though. the awesomeness of the bars and people made up for it.

 

[The_Reaper]

I hope you have the same sentiments when you get a summer of 40C practically every day.

What did you expect? It's ****ing summer mate, harden up!

 

[BALKAN]

daylight saving time was invented by Hitler u a natsy bro?

 

[dales.girl38]

What's wrong with Melbourne's winters?

 

[Caesar]

What did you expect? It's ******* winter mate, harden up!

Spoken like someone who's never lived in a tolerable climate.

What's wrong with Melbourne's winters?

Long, dark, windy, rainy, cold.

I suppose if you grow up with them then you might be used to it, but if you're accustomed to a more temperate latitude they are pretty grim. I found it ineffably depressing to go Monday to Friday barely seeing the sun, and struggling home in the rain to a cold dark studio flat every night for months on end.

 

[dales.girl38]

Spoken like someone who's never lived in a tolerable climate.

Long, dark, windy, rainy, cold.

I suppose if you grow up with them then you might be used to it, but if you're accustomed to a more temperate latitude they are pretty grim. I found it ineffably depressing to go Monday to Friday barely seeing the sun, and struggling home in the rain to a cold dark studio flat every night for months on end.

I lived in New York for one winter. 70+ cms of snow in one night that didn't completely disappear for over a month. Barely got above 1 degree for two months. Melbourne's winters are plenty tolerable, thank you.

 

[Caesar]

Yes, well. That's a bit like beating me every day, and then asking me if I'd find being beaten once a week tolerable.

 

[neroblack]

Yes, well. That's a bit like beating me every day, and then asking me if I'd find being beaten once a week tolerable.

That probably depends on how seriously one takes the weather.

 

[Caesar]

It depends on what you're used to.

The maternal branch of my family are from Melbourne, and the ones who moved to Sydney can no longer tolerate Melbourne winters. Once you get used to a mild, temperate climate it's a bit hard to go back to a city where you live in wet gloom for half the year.

 

[Upgrayedd]

We get it, you like to sleep in.

You don't understand the point of daylight savings, do you?

I do. Summer i can go down to the local basketball courts and play pick up games till 7pm. down in perth, Daylight savings i could do this till 9. I would also like to do this in winter however. The day-break is wasted. Im getting up at 7 every morning and going to work, Im not exactly enjoying the daylight getting dressed and being stuck on a highway

I might ask, Do you understand the point of daylight savings? So that countries like Germany ect. don't have a setting sun at 4pm?

 

[neroblack]

I do. Summer i can go down to the local basketball courts and play pick up games till 7pm. down in perth, Daylight savings i could do this till 9. I would also like to do this in winter however. The day-break is wasted. Im getting up at 7 every morning and going to work, Im not exactly enjoying the daylight getting dressed and being stuck on a highway

I might ask, Do you understand the point of daylight savings? So that countries like Germany ect. don't have a setting sun at 4pm?

What the hell does Germany have to do with daylight savings in Perth? You're missing the point here I think, so you're changing continents.

My view on daylight savings is this:


Especially the STD bit.

 

[Cruyff14]

Spoken like someone who's never lived in a tolerable climate.


Long, dark, windy, rainy, cold.

I suppose if you grow up with them then you might be used to it, but if you're accustomed to a more temperate latitude they are pretty grim. I found it ineffably depressing to go Monday to Friday barely seeing the sun, and struggling home in the rain to a cold dark studio flat every night for months on end.

I don't find Melbourne's climate intolerable.

 

[neroblack]

I don't find Melbourne's climate intolerable.

Plus, in general the people are much better. Except for Carlton supporters.

 

[Kram]

Melbourne is a good city but it does have a rather grey and gloomy feel to it in some respects.

 

[Ljp86]

I hope you have the same sentiments when you get a summer of 40C practically every day.

****ing oath. Spent New Years Eve at a party when it was 42 degrees during the day. The beer and the girls walking around in bikinis near the pool made it even better.

Was a awesome day and night that's for sure.