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I live in South Africa which can get pretty chilly in the winters, but people generally don't understand insulation, so they just tend to put more clothes on, o
by sgt 6y ago
I live in South Africa which can get pretty chilly in the winters, but people generally don't understand insulation, so they just tend to put more clothes on, or just wear a kortbroek in the summer. Even if they did, a lot of people can't afford it.
It's catching on slowly though, for example things like double glazed windows. Also, building regulations have improved and insulation is now a mandatory for normal residential houses.
I'm in the process of changing all the windows in my house to double glazed, and installing better insulation above the ceiling. It makes a massive difference, and at least in my area (Cape Town) you don't need an air conditioner in summer, except perhaps a few extreme days in February :)
- Aachen 6y agoFYI kortbroek is shorts in English :) Afrikaans is 'n grappige taal als Nederlander! :D Fun fact: you have an easier time understanding Dutch than vice versa, I always felt weird that you guys seemed to be fine with Dutch but I couldn't understand sentences in Afrikaans but it seems that it's not just me. Let me know if you care about the reasoning, I didn't fully get it but can probably find the original video where I learned this. Also sorry for the off topic but I figured two days after the thread mostly died (everything's so ephemeral here) it doesn't really matter.
- sgt 6y agoDutch is easy enough to read but listening in is a different story. Dutch people tend to have a strong accent in.. dutch ;-) I suspect I would get used to it if I ever moved to Holland but I have no intentions of doing that.