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Europe is big. Maybe not everybody needs to pass this winter in Swedden. Maybe the governments should start programs to help some vulnerable groups of people, e

Europe is big. Maybe not everybody needs to pass this winter in Swedden. Maybe the governments should start programs to help some vulnerable groups of people, elders for example, to pass the winter in the South. Elders and remote workers living for a two or three months in a warmer place would save energy. Not necessarily at 50m of a beach or in a five stars hotel; the Mediterranean is full of empty houses in November. They even have some Russian palaces that are casually empty now. As long as is a voluntary program, promoting "migration" of a percentage of people between Mediterranean and Northern European countries, in the worst months of winter could be part of the solution.

krageon 4y ago
I was ready to be upset at this, but actually it's not such a bad idea. It's a single shared flight for one person and you get heating for months in return. There is no universe in which this doesn't make sense.
- pvaldes 4y ago
  Some footnotes for remote workers intrigued by the idea You still will need some heating, because houses designed for hot places typically lack isolation layers. But is raising the temperature of your home from 5 to 20C, not from -35 to 20. Many low places out of the touristic areas are too hot in summer, but warm in winter. High places and the inner part of the country can be very cold, of course but much best insulated. Put 10Km or more between you and the sea. This will avoid the most touristic areas (more expensive, much more noisier, and filled with hormonally rabid adolescents). You will still have the benefit of the beach at a few minutes but none of the drunktards that feel the need to sing the Macarena at 4:AM. Don't rent anything built in or near a dry riverbed. Ever. Today is forbidden to built in flooding areas, but in the past they were much more relaxed in that sense. Just because it floods only each ten years does not mean that is not just this year. Elder people in small villages of Spain, Portugal France or Greece will not speak English. Younger may speak. More or less. Crime levels will be typically low and the places are safe, but expect a lot of crimes against the Anglish language and much head scratching, huhs and ohs if you speak it. Use google translate. Check if the internet connection is reasonable also.

krageon 4y ago

I was ready to be upset at this, but actually it's not such a bad idea. It's a single shared flight for one person and you get heating for months in return. There is no universe in which this doesn't make sense.

pvaldes 4y ago
Some footnotes for remote workers intrigued by the idea You still will need some heating, because houses designed for hot places typically lack isolation layers. But is raising the temperature of your home from 5 to 20C, not from -35 to 20. Many low places out of the touristic areas are too hot in summer, but warm in winter. High places and the inner part of the country can be very cold, of course but much best insulated. Put 10Km or more between you and the sea. This will avoid the most touristic areas (more expensive, much more noisier, and filled with hormonally rabid adolescents). You will still have the benefit of the beach at a few minutes but none of the drunktards that feel the need to sing the Macarena at 4:AM. Don't rent anything built in or near a dry riverbed. Ever. Today is forbidden to built in flooding areas, but in the past they were much more relaxed in that sense. Just because it floods only each ten years does not mean that is not just this year. Elder people in small villages of Spain, Portugal France or Greece will not speak English. Younger may speak. More or less. Crime levels will be typically low and the places are safe, but expect a lot of crimes against the Anglish language and much head scratching, huhs and ohs if you speak it. Use google translate. Check if the internet connection is reasonable also.