Brrrrr!! 😱 Where are you, if you don't mind me asking?
@see_the_sus I truly don't think I've EVER known it to be this cold here.
I wondered as I don't think I've ever heard it getting that cold in the UK.
Are you letting your faucets trickle water so they don't freeze?
@see_the_sus Plus, my other half comes from Chicago so he thinks I'm a weakling for complaining about it!
@Florence @see_the_sus Ha. I went to HS in Minneapolis before climate change. Snow would forgo MN and drop in IL where it was warmer. Every year Chicago had to borrow snow removal equipment from Mpls, like it was some big surprise. (But I admit that UK cold is very damp, so it has a different feel.)
@Notokay @see_the_sus It really IS a different 'cold', you're absolutely right.
@see_the_sus @Notokay I can imagine. I feel ya though as I've spent most of my life switching between one country or continent after another! My childhood was very peripatetic and so I think it's in my genes now!
@see_the_sus @Florence Faculty brat here, then a dual-career academic. 10 states, three other countries.
@Notokay @see_the_sus I had a guardian who was a musician, with whom I went to live when I was six. Spent the nexgt 10/15 years going around the world on tour etc. Then went to Uni, then worked with a job I could move countries a lot (requirement) and so I think I was lucky really, it gave me flexibility and also a famiiarity with 'the different'.
@Florence @see_the_sus Not just familiarity with 'the different', but flexibility of thinking and understanding. And something monocultural (and sometimes provincial) people call "bravery." I moved from one side of the state to another to take a new job and one of my colleagues called me very brave?
@see_the_sus @Florence Ha. It seems endemic in this country, TBH. I've seen the same in people from CA to IA to MA.
True. I think what it startled me so much about NYC was that A) it's an island and yeah sure it's got a shit ton of things to do but it's the East Coast and you can visit several states in one day! And B) I naively assumed (I was a mere 27) that people there were more cultured and adventurous. Silly me.
@see_the_sus @Florence Well, I understand being called brave for traveling around the world by oneself (which I also have done), but for moving across the state to take a job? That's just a head-scratcher.