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Surviving in different places in the world requires different amount of work. If you live in Brazil or Cuba cold weather does not exist and you can wear a t-sh

Surviving in different places in the world requires different amount of work. If you live in Brazil or Cuba cold weather does not exist and you can wear a t-shirt swinsuit all year long and survive. If you live in Germany,Japan, Norway or Boston you can't do that. You need to prepare for Winter, and not just you, but your house needs to be prepared, your means of transport needs to be prepared, and so on. While Winter exist in SA, it is pretty mild for European, Asian or American standards. Also in lots of places you could have a farm and you don't need to buy lot's of things if you just live a simple life. And Africa is gigantic, with lots of resources for a population much smaller than Asia or Europe, and way younger.

AlgorithmicTime 5y ago
Africa is big, but it's actually more densely populated than, for example, North America.
andreynering 5y ago
> If you live in Brazil or Cuba cold weather does not exist and you can wear a t-shirt swinsuit all year long and survive. As a Brazilian I have to say that you don't know what you're talking about. It's specially very cold in the winter in the south, where I live, but even in the south-west can be very cold. Only part of the country would be warm even in the winter as you said.
- akiselev 5y ago
  That's a bit harsh. From a quick google: > The lowest temperature officially recorded in Brazil was −14 °C (7 °F) in Caçador, Santa Catarina state, on 11 June 1952. However, the summit of Morro da Igreja, a mountain situated in the municipality of Urubici, also in Santa Catarina, recorded a temperature of −17.8 °C (0.0 °F) on 30 June 1996 unofficially. I googled the average winter temperature for those locales and they're all well above freezing - with the exception of the mountain summits - as high as 10-20C in January! Compared to Boston (daily winter lows below freezing) or Germany/Japan (record lows in the -40s), that's basically t-shirt weather.
  - andreynering 5y ago
    Sure it's not as cold and the US and Europe, but saying Brazilians "use swinsuit all year" is inaccurate.
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AlgorithmicTime 5y ago

Africa is big, but it's actually more densely populated than, for example, North America.

andreynering 5y ago

> If you live in Brazil or Cuba cold weather does not exist and you can wear a t-shirt swinsuit all year long and survive. As a Brazilian I have to say that you don't know what you're talking about. It's specially very cold in the winter in the south, where I live, but even in the south-west can be very cold. Only part of the country would be warm even in the winter as you said.

akiselev 5y ago
That's a bit harsh. From a quick google: > The lowest temperature officially recorded in Brazil was −14 °C (7 °F) in Caçador, Santa Catarina state, on 11 June 1952. However, the summit of Morro da Igreja, a mountain situated in the municipality of Urubici, also in Santa Catarina, recorded a temperature of −17.8 °C (0.0 °F) on 30 June 1996 unofficially. I googled the average winter temperature for those locales and they're all well above freezing - with the exception of the mountain summits - as high as 10-20C in January! Compared to Boston (daily winter lows below freezing) or Germany/Japan (record lows in the -40s), that's basically t-shirt weather.
- andreynering 5y ago
  Sure it's not as cold and the US and Europe, but saying Brazilians "use swinsuit all year" is inaccurate.
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